Welcome to the Young 88 - 

One Design Does it All

The success of the Young 88 keel boat is down to Jim Young's fantastic design offering a fast and safe racer / cruiser coupled with Roger Land's innovative boat building and marketing.

Over 150 boats have been built since the 80s with active racing fleets in many Australian and New Zealand sailing centres.  

A strong owners' association perpetuates this success, managing an annual program of racing and social events and a tightly controlled set of one design rules. This keeps the boats on the same playing field, affordable fun and safe. 

If you’re looking to explore the great outdoors and life on the water join the Young 88 family today

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North Sails Young 88 Sprints
Tue 19 Mar 2024 18:00 — Tue 02 Apr 2024 20:30
Northcote Birkenhead Yacht Club
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The short duration, action packed, windward leeward format of the sprints is always hugely popular with the crews seeking a mid-week break from the office/home office.
Mount Gay Rum Young 88 1-2-3 Series
Sun 14 Apr 2024 11:00 — Sun 23 Jun 2024 16:00
Bucklands Beach Yacht Club
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Comprising single handed harbour races, two handed w/ls (no extras) and three handed w/ls (with extras) - the 1-2-3 series is the ultimate test of mind, body and multi-tasking skills!
Young88 Association Annual General Meeting
Tue 30 Apr 2024 18:00 — 19:30
In Person and Virtual Meeting
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Harry Thurston and crew showed their talent once again last weekend. They faced varied conditions ranging from 20 to 25 knots on the first day where skill, weight and hard hiking was vital to 0 to 10 knots on the second day. · Read more
The national Young 88 fleet has awoken from a long covid slumber and is shaking it off with some very successful summer events in the run up to the 2024 Harken Young 88 Nationals..... · Read more
Reminder email to competitors with handy links and info .... · Read more
Congratulations to North Sails Young 88 Southern Champs winner Outragous helmed by Harry Thurston. · Read more
The fleets are regrouping after what looked like successful summer sojourns. Now it gets real with the build up to the marquee regattas in the North and South. A couple of requests..... · Read more
Bay of Islands Sailing Week you rock! Competitive fun sailing. Great parties especially the cocktail competition. Congrats to the Kwaussies on Jamiroquai for that win. Harry Thurston took out line honours with an almost perfect score, · Read more
This is not your typical 88 Regatta……  more emphasis on fun and parties less on protests and agro punishable by a keel haul!. ...... · Read more
Farewell 2023, you were OK and better than your recent predecessors. If the weather could be a bit better and less cyclone filled in 2024 then we will be very happy. This is a quick recap on last year and preview of the upcoming events in2024…… · Read more