Rediscovered and reinstated at the 50th Australian Championships in Jervis Bay, the NSW Hobie Cat Association challenged the other States for Supremacy above all others, much like a Hobie Sailing ‘State of Origin’. Opening up the competition for 51st Nationals in Bris-Vegas, the NSWHCA challenged the States for: ‘ the lowest total points of the top-3 teams/helms in the Hobie 16s & Hobie 14s’. This is how they played out:
Hobie 16s
- Queensland: 196pts
- Peter & Juliet Bates (4th): 40pts
- Branchy & Jo Keen (6th): 62pts
- Shane & Tom Peterson (7th): 68pts
- Western Australia: 224pts
- Darren Smith & Claire Bisgood (1st): 25pts
- Cam Owen & Suzzi Ghent (3rd): 37pts
- Brad Quartermaine & Natalie Waddell (20): 162pts
- Victoria: 270pts
- Fletcher & Georgia Warren-Myers (2nd): 29pts
- Cam Weddell & Pip Pietromonaco (5th): 49pts
- Geoff & Zak Rowdon (25th): 192pts
- New South Wales: 299pts
- Mick Butler & Charlie Tonks (9th): 72pts
- Anthony Duchatel & Evelyn Curtis (10th): 96pts
- Dave & Meagan Fisher (12th): 131pts
Hobie 14s
- New South Wales: 150pts
- Bryn Robinson-Mills (1st): 38pts
- Mick Butler (4th): 51pts
- Rod Waterhouse (7th): 61pts
- Victoria: 243pts
- Fletcher Warren-Myers (2nd): 49pts
- Georgia Warren-Myers (9th): 95pts
- Zak Rowdon (11th): 99pts
- Western Australia: 308pts
- Darren Smith (3rd): 51pts
- Brad Quartermaine (8th): 93pts
- Peter Redway (15th): 164pts
- Queensland: 610.5pts
- Anthony Smith (16th): 174pts
- Bloody Leon (19th): 233pts
- AVG: 203.5
Final Standings Combined Totals 14s/16s:
- New South Wales: 449pts
- Victoria: 513pts
- Western Australia: 532pts
- Queensland: 779pts
