Performance Yachts appoint Azzura Marine to build new PY-125 & PY-115
Just weeks after the highly successful trials of Performance Yacht’s PY-100 in New Zealand, the company has announced the expansion of its range and appointed Azzura Marine, the premier Australian boat builder, as constructors of the PY-115 model, and its new flagship, the PY-125.
Established by four times America’s Cup helmsman, Olympian, and ten times World Champion sailor Iain Murray AM, Azzura Marine combines decades of boat building experience, world class facilities and state-of-the-art technology to produce quality custom motor and sail vessels and high performance racing yachts, to the same high standards as required to construct the PY-115 and PY-125.
“Azzura Marine has exactly the right pedigree to deliver the quality yachts expected by discerning Performance Yachts clients,” stated Performance Yachts Founder Adrian Nicolle.
Azzura Marine Principal, Iain Murray AM, said he was excited at the prospect of further expanding the group’s marine interests. “This agreement will effectively combine the knowledge and talents of Performance Yachts, Azzura Marine and Dixon Yacht Design to deliver a finely crafted, contemporary range of high performance sailing superyachts to the world,” he said.
The PY-115 and PY-125 will be built at Azzura Marine’s impressive superyacht new build and repair/ refit facility in Newcastle; just 70 nautical miles north of Sydney and en route to some of the world’s most stunning cruising destinations.
In arriving at his decision to appoint Azzura Marine, Adrian Nicolle pointed out the importance of finding a builder that was experienced in using the advanced construction materials and methods required to construct the Performance Yachts range. “With Southern Ocean Marine building our PY-100 and PY-109 models and Azzura Marine the PY-115 and PY-125, I am confident that Performance Yachts has two of the world’s top boat builders producing our yachts”.
Designed by Bill Dixon and his team at Dixon Yacht Design the PY-125, like her sisters, is a thoroughly modern, light but immensely strong fast cruising yacht, which offers sumptuous accommodation for owners, guests, and crew. Furthermore, she will be more than capable of making her presence felt at the world’s top superyacht regattas.
The PY-125 will be available with the unusual, but highly effective lifting keel option, as seen on the PY-100. Not a customary feature on such a sleek yacht, it does not intrude into, or compromise the yachts living accommodation, but succeeds in minimizing her draft to a shallow 3.75 metres with keel up and a hydro-dynamically efficient 5.25 metres with keel down.
Performance Yachts will announce its full 2010 range later this year.
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Sailing is one of the few, if not the only, recreational or sporting activity where the entire family can fully participate with a loved one that has a disability.
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The common link between Ape and man is a jolly good gropping.
Womens Match Racing Association of New Zealand
Image: Debra Douglas: Chaucer Partnership
NZ Women’s Match Racing Olympic Squad
Back Row: Jess Smyth, Miranda Powrie, Jenna Hansen, Sam Osborne & Steph Hazard,
Front Row: Carla Holgate, Anna de Fluiter, Aimee Famularo & Raynor Smeal
JOIN NOW!
You can join the WMRANZ for $2
(This is solely to cover the $100 fee to Yachting New Zealand for joining as an association – based on getting 50 ladies to join!)
The objectives of the Association shall be:
· To promote, encourage and foster the development and growth of the Women’s Match Racing in New Zealand.
· Organise and assist in facilitating Women’s Match Racing and other female sailing activities.
· To foster cohesion between sailors, officials & organising authorities.
· To organise Match Racing rules sessions.
· To hold and maintain a database of members of the association. i.e., women sailors, umpires, coaches, sponsors, interest parties, stakeholders, etc.
By joining you agree that your email address & cellphone number may be given to potential skippers & other members who want to get hold of you!
Not just for Women – but to promote Women’s Match Racing (& fleet racing if we can help)!
So get on the database today!!!!
HOW TO JOIN – WMRANZ
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Name, Email address, Cell number, Address, Weight, Age (or if under 25 for those regattas), Availability, Occupation, NZder?, Preferred position onboard, basic sailing CV.
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Good luck Hilary
Fellow quadriplegic sailor Hilary Lister has commenced her attempt to sail around Great Britain. Hilary and her team had to make a really tough decision and call off her attempt last year due to bad weather and a few kit problems, but she set off again from Plymouth on Wednesday this week and, as of this morning, is already in Newlyn – almost exactly 2 years to the day since we were there on our very same voyage. Hilary is sailing a different type of boat to me as she has different requirements to me but it will be interesting to see how the two boats, the two routes, the two crews and the two sailors compare. I guess I’m in a fairly unique position to understand exactly how tough, both physically and mentally, this voyage will be for Hilary but she’s a strong-willed lady and will no doubt succeed. When she does, no doubt there will be some debate in the bar about “who did it fastest”. If you get to meet her en-route, don’t for heaven’s sake call her brave or courageous – like me, she finds such attributions misplaced and inappropriate.
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In 2007, Geoff Holt became the first disabled person to sail single handed around Great Britain. Full details HERE.
In the winter of 2009, quadriplegic yachtsman Geoff Holt will set sail in a 60ft, purpose-built, wheelchair-accessible catamaran on a voyage across the Atlantic Ocean. The 3,000 mile journey will take him up to a month to complete, across some of the most hostile waters in the world.
In completing his Challenge, Geoff Holt will become the first quadriplegic to make the journey, unassisted in every aspect of the sailing
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Scarlet Oyster has been moored in St Katharine Dock’s since her last stop alongside HMS Belfast last week, and the crew have had a well deserved couple of days relaxation, watched Ellen’s fantastic talk at BT Centre on Wednesday night and continued with preparation for today’s new arrivals.
Dan, James, Jamie and Steffi will be joining the boat today along with volunteer Carolyn. If the weather is on our side, all will be sailing down the Thames and out of London tomorrow at the beginning of their journey to Ipswich, so keep up with everyone’s twitters, blogs, news and photos at www.roundbritain.org. Don’t forget you can send a message to the boat if you join friend connect, and also ‘Buy a Mile’ for £10, or more if you can, to get the fundraising boat beating Scarlet up to Ipswich!!
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Valencia Sailing
BMW Oracle, the America’s Cup Challenger of Record, organized a press conference this afternoon in their Valencia base. Russell Coutts and Tom Ehman were in charge of informing the Valencian journalists about the latest developments on the Americas’ Cup situation.
Press interview here
Are they building a 2nd boat? Listen to the interview.
Hints of Louis Vuitton getting back into the game. More Auckland style events.
TELEFÓNICA BLACK LEG SEVEN DAY 8 QFB:
received 23.05.09 0511 GMT
The night is ice cold as 28 knots of SSW’ly wind is blowing over rugged water which has the modest temperature of 9 Celsius.
Exactly at midnight GMT the predicted left shift came and we turned the boat from north to east, allowed the wind to put the pressure in the sails from starboard side instead of port. What a sailor calls a gybe…
The position report at 2200 looked, at the first glance, great with us at the top of the scoring board! The simple reason was that all the other boats were in ‘Stealth Play’ and the Black boat was the only boat with a position…
The truth is that we are most likely last in the fleet after 900 nm of intense running downwind were we have been demolished. Big, painful losses at each position report has made that information hard to hand out from the nav station, but we are quite philosophical about it. We push our Black boat as hard as we can without taking too big risks. That is all what we can do….
With 500 nm to go into Galway it feels great to finally coming back to ‘the old continent’, Europe. It looks like Green Dragon is doing well on this leg and we are happy for them, coming back to their home country in good shape.
A common topic of discussion onboard is what kind of whiskey is the very best. I am personally more interested in a proper English breakfast which surely also is served in Ireland…
Yours
Roger Nilson – navigator
What does Telefonica Black, Scarlet Oyster and Liara have in common?
Apart from being on the same thread Logan!
Clue?
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