Onboard Alfa Romeo during a test sail in Sydney, Australia in preparation for the Rolex Sydney to Hobart 2009.
‘Alfa Romeo’, the second yacht built by New Zealand skipper and owner, Neville Crichton, to carry the name of the Italian car maker, was penned by leading American yacht designers, Reichel/Pugh and built in Sydney by McConaghy Boats.
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Oct 09
Oct 09
Onboard living Doll – Flinders Islet Race
Tasman Sea 34º27’35″S 150º55’57″E
Onboard Living Doll, Farr 55, built by Cookson Boats for Melbourne yachtsman Michael Hiatt competing in the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia’s (CYCA) dramatic 92 nautical-miles Flinders Islet Race that started off Point Piper on Sydney Harbour, where a yacht, Shock Wave, sponsored by PriceWaterhouseCoopers, crashed into rocks off Flinders Islet and ran aground at about 3am. Two yachts competing in the race, Syd Fischer’s Ragamuffin and Bob Steel’s Quest, both from the CYCA in Sydney, went to the aid of the PriceWaterhouseCoopers crew. Two other yachts in the vicinity at the time of the incident, Geoff Ross’ Yendys, also from the CYCA, and Michael Hiatt’s Living Doll from Melbourne also stood by to give assistance.
Experienced sailors Sally Gordon, 47, of Darling Point, and Andrew Short, 48, of The Spit, were pulled unconscious from the water but couldn’t be revived.
My deepest and heartfelt condolences goes out to the families that have lost their loved ones.
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Dec 08
Dec 08
Loki
Sydney Harbour, New South Wales, Australia 33º51’03″S 151º15’82″E
Onboard the 63 feet Loki for the first test sail in the Sydney Harbour.
McConaghy Boats in Mona Vale, Australia built the new Reichel-Pugh 63 Loki For Stephen Ainsworth. In Norse Mythology, Loki is a God. Loki sometimes assists the gods and sometimes causes problems for them. Loki is a shape shifter and in separate incidents he appears in the form of a salmon, mare, seal, fly, and possibly an elderly woman. Loki’s positive relations with the gods end with his role in engineering the death of the god Baldr. Loki is eventually bound by the gods with the entrails of one of his sons.
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Aug 07
Aug 07
Yendys
Hamilton Island, Whitsundays, Queensland, Australia 20º19’73″S 149º03’38″E
Onboard Yendys a Reichel/Pugh 55 during the Withehaven Beach race, winner of the IRC Racing division at the 2007 Audi Hamilton Island Race Week.
Geoff Ross launched his new Reichel/Pugh 55 late 2006. It was the first boat out of McConaghy International’s new boatyard in China. Yendys (Sydney spelt backwards) has been an icon of the Australian sailing scene for many year.
Yendys carries a sail number of 1836 – the year Geoff’s ancestors first arrived in Hobart via convict transportation.
