In 1999 my partner, Jess, and I decided to invest in a cruising yacht to be placed in the charter fleet in the Whitsundays. After many years racing dinghies (mainly NS14s) together, we were to embark on a journey that would eventually lead us to owning and cruising a blue water capable yacht and sailing nearly 28,000 together. I had previously read about cruising catamarans so we visited the 1999 Sydney Boat Show and inspected a Seawind 1000. We fell in love and after receiving a lot of positive feedback from the charter businessw we decided that a cat would be the best way to proceed. So we chose a Seawind 1000 and lined up with a company called Tropical Sailing. The boat (#1073) was built in Wollongong by Seawind and because Tropical preferred their boats to have “Tropical” in the name (they already…

 SOLD OUT Multihull Central brings YouTube Sensations Sailing La Vagabonde to the Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron for one exclusive day sharing their adventures of sailing around the world, over lunch. On Sunday the 17th of December, Riley and Elayna of Sailing La Vagabonde will share their story of how they went from no sailing experience, to cruising on a yacht half way around the world, becoming social media sensations and upgrading to a luxury Outremer catamaran. With close to 350,000 subscribers on YouTube, Sailing La Vagabonde enjoy a massive global following and lead the way as social media icons sharing their wanderlust of the sea with aspiring sailors, travelers and adventurers the world over with financial support from sponsors pledging funds via the Patreon crowdfunding website. In 2017 they made history when they took delivery of a new luxury Outremer 45 blue water sailing…