We are excited to announce the first of our talks for 2015 in the Trips & Tips lecture series. We have three great speakers for you; Craig Margetts who has sailed his Seawind 1160, Scarlett, around Australia speaking on planning for a long cruise. Andrew Turner of Ullman Sails Brisbane talking about sail care and maintenance and Craig Humpheries of Signature Yacht Services giving a demonstration on doing your own fiberglass and gel coat repair. The bar and restaurant will be open at the club for anyone wanting to have a meal or drink. When: 6.30pm, Friday 6th February 2015 Where: Wynnum Manly Yacht Club, Brisbane Cost: FREE For more information please call our Brisbane office 07 3393 5550.

Seawind Catamarans have a long history of facilitating a range of owners’ get togethers all over the world. The Moreton Bay (Brisbane Queensland) regatta has been operating for a number of years, and has moved around the bay exploring different racing and cruising and, most importantly, partying locations over that time. For the last two years the event has been based out of the Wynnum Manly Yacht Club in Manly, Queensland. This year 2014 saw 15 boats attend the event, about par for the course for numbers, ranging from early model 1000’s to the latest 1250. The format for the event is a fun sail on Friday afternoon, for those that can make it, followed by a barbie at the club that evening. This year we had the very great pleasure of a presentation from David and Georgina off Seawind 1160, Nimrod, concerning their…

Nominations are now open for the APC “King of the Gulf” sailing regatta for monohulls and multihulls at Port Vincent, South Australia. The event commences with the racing divisions sailing from Adelaide to Pt Vincent on Friday 20th February (Category 3). The racing divisions will then compete in 5 race coastal series at Pt Vincent while the cruising division will compete in a 3 race series. Great value, great sailing and great competition. The fastest boats in Australia will be there including Queensland’s Mad Max. Nominations Fees: Passage race Adelaide to Pt Vincent $25 5 race (racing) series $75 3 race series (cruising) $50 Passage race Pt Vincent to Adelaide $25 Notice of race: http://myasa.asn.au/kog-2015/45875392

Multihull Central in association with Outremer Yachts is pleased to announce a special tour to the South of France to join and compete in the Outremer Cup. The tour will include sailing on board a late model Outremer and competing in the four days of racing out of La Grande Motte, a tour of the Outremer Factory, plus site seeing and wine tasting at the local vineyards in this beautiful part of the world. The Outremer Cup is open to all models of Outremer and is hosted by the La Grande Motte Yacht Club, home of the French Nacra 17 catamaran Olympic team. Racing is competitive but friendly, with plenty of laughs shared at the end of the day over some nice French wine. Though most of the crews are French, there are several crews from various parts of Europe that travel there to…