Friday 27 – Saturday 28 October, 2017 * Raft up for a lunch * Fun races with prizes for best dressed crew * SEAbbatical Short Film Festival Screening * Dinner at the Tramsheds Friday 27th October 1pm Workshop for trimming your sails perform 3pm Briefing at Multihull Central Marina 4pm Fun sail around Sydney Harbour 7pm Wood Fired Pizza and trivia night 9pm Screening of SEAbbatical Short Film Festival Saturday October 28th 8am Breakfast 10am Fun sail around Sydney Harbour 12noon – 3pm Raft up for a lunch on the boats and swim in the harbour 4pm Fun sail around Sydney Harbour 7.30pm Dinner at the Tramsheds Here is a snippet from last years event from the first day – not much wind!
SEAbbatical Destination: Vanuatu By Brent Vaughan Port Orla It’s the middle of winter, 26 degrees, sunny and almost humid, but there is a nice gentle breeze that drifts across the ocean. We are in the small coastal town of Luganville on the north island of Vanuatu, Espiritu Santos, to enjoy some of the local hospitality and the most accessible wreck dive in the world. While Luganville isn’t much to write home about itself, it was once a major US military base during World War II and it provides the gateway to exploring these remnants of the past and the spectacular landscapes and islander culture that surround it on the islands of Espiritu Santo. While Vanuatu is most famous for its Volcanoes (its located on a fault line), the originator of bungy jumping (tribes on Pentacoste Island tie vines to their ankles and jump from…
Business by remote and the 80:20 rule Entrepreneurial SEAbbaticals Ever since a young kid I’ve been around boats, the sea and the sand and when I’m in or around these I always have a sense of my life (or the fun bank) being fulfilled rather than drained. I’ve always thought it important to keep the fun bank topped up whenever possible and so I never really escaped the boating lifestyle and ultimately I choose (or it choose me) to combine work and pleasure to a point where it’s sometimes difficult to distinguish one from the other…that’s just the way I like it. Sure it’s not all fun and games and can be bloody hard work, but there is certainly plenty of fun to be had so it’s a question of getting the balance right. I love my work and blessed to run a successful…
Come and see our range of 5 boats that we will have on display at Sydney International Boat Show this year at the International Convention Centre at Cockle Bay Marina, Darling Harbour-Multihull Central will be at Marina Berths 76-79 We will be showcasing an impressive array of Seawind 1260 (new to the Sydney market) a Seawind 1160 Resort, a Seawind 1160 Lite, and Aquila 44, the Southern Hemisphere launch of the Aquila 36 and the Takacats – a superb range of roll-up inflatable catamarans makes for an ideal yacht tender! Click on any of the photo’s below to find out more details on the selected boat. Complete below to register for a VIP tour and skip the lines
An exciting delivery of an Aquila 44 to Sydney being delivered by Yacht Express in Rose Bay. Something different in Sydney! Come and see her at our marina in Rozelle Bay! For more information on this boat click here Aquila 44
The Bay to Bay trailable yacht race is an annual sailing event held on the first weekend in May each year, in the Great Sandy National Park. The race is sailed from Tin Can Bay, at the southern end of the Great Sandy Strait, and Hervey Bay, at the northern end, with an overnight stop at Garry’s Anchorage, Fraser Island. The race is Queensland’s largest yacht race and the second largest in Australia, although it is limited to between 200 and 250 competitors for navigational safety. Because of the shallow depth of some sections of the course, the event is limited to trailer sailors of both mono and multihull types. The Bay to Bay race was originally conceived by members of the Hervey Bay Sailing Club on 18 April 1980. Originally suggested as a one-day trailer yacht race from Tin Can Bay to…
Multihull Central Regatta gives Sydney Harbour regulars a sight of flying Multihulls! Following the incredible turnout of both cruising and racing catamarans and trimarans at the Hamilton Island Race week in August, Multihull Central opened their traditional Seawind Regatta on Sydney harbour to all multihulls. With fifteen multihulls entered in total, the weekend was a complete success. In addition to the Seawinds, there were Schionnings, a Grainger, Crowthers, a Prescott Whitehaven, a Lagoon, a Toro, a Corsair Sprint 750 and a Pulse 600. There were two divisions, the racing division and the cruising division, both with different courses that weaved their way between the Opera House and Manly. Hosted by Multihull Central, the boat owners and crew joined together for a social evening of Pizza ‘made to order’ at their marina on Friday night after the day’s racing had been completed. The winds…
Two new Corsair Pulse 600 trimarans were delivered by Multihull Central to the RQYS in time for the start of the sailing season to join a new initiative by the club whereby a new category of membership now includes the use of the two cutting edge trimarans for the purposes of learning to sail, cruising with family or one design racing. “We recognize that for sailing as a sport and recreation to be relevant to the next generation, there needs to be new and exciting boat designs that capture the imagination and are fun to sail,” said Brent Vaughan, Director of Multihull Central. “But equally important is providing access to these boats and encouraging participation to those uninitiated.” “Multihulls are leading growth trends worldwide in both racing and recreational cruising , but it has always frustrated me that unless you either know someone with…