Airlie Beach Race week update, catamaran Fantasia returns from Asian sailing circuit to participate in the racing

From the following article submitted by Tracey Johnstone to Sail-World:

http://www.sail-world.com/Australia/Airlie-Beach-Race-Week:-long-journey-back-for-top-multihull-event/112933

The Fantasia family have travelled an exceptional 4,500 nautical miles just to compete in the 2013 Multihull Australian Championship.

The national championship is being held as part of this year’s Abell Point Marina Airlie Beach Race Week, being held from ninth to 16th August.

Since leaving Australia just over two years ago, skipper Andrew Stransky and his family, wife Carolyn and 14-year-old daughter Mara, have been racing their Seven Seas 50 catamaran, Fantasia, in Asian regattas and races.

'We’ve done Kings Cup, Raja Muda, Langkawai Regatta, Koh Samui Regatta, Top of the Gulf. There are about eight regattas and races you can do for multihulls. We did six of them in one year and about 10 or 11 the whole time we were in Asia which was about two years,' Stransky said.

With the chance to compete in what Stransky describes as the biggest multihull event in the southern hemisphere, it was an easy decision to head back to Australia. 'We raced up in Asia then decided it would be interesting to go back to Australia and then compare the two multihull racing scenes.'

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You can read up more on the Stransky family and their adventures on Fantasia on their Facebook page here:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Fantasia-Sailing/150410288346095

Fantasia, Photo courtesy Fantasia Sailing