Multihull Yacht Club of Victoria, Annual Southern Oceans Multihull Regatta to be hosted by Safety Beach Yacht Club with berthing at Martha Cove marina

This years Southern Oceans Multihull Regatta (SOMR) is being held in Port Phillip Bay and hosted by the Safety Beach Yacht Club with berthing available at Martha Cove marina.  This will allow berthing and storage for more multihulls.  Owners of cruising multihulls who are interested in trying their hand at some racing with a friendly and welcoming group of sailors are encouraged to join in and a division for cruisers will be in place.  For any enquiries please contact Geoff Floyd on gafloyd@optusnet.com.au



2015 Australian Multihull Nationals to be hosted by Multihull Yacht Club of Victoria and held at Royal Geelong Yacht Club

From the following entry on the Multihull Yacht Club of Victoria blog:

http://mycv-news.blogspot.com.au/2014/07/2015-australian-multihull-nationals.html

The Australian 2015 Multihull Nationals will be hosted by MYCV and held at Royal Geelong Yacht Club in January 2015.

The regatta will be seven races starting on Saturday 17th Jan and finishing on Wed 21st Jan, with the presentation after the final race on the 21st.

There will then be a two race passage series (with its own trophies, not part of the Nationals, and including the existing Festival of Sails (FOS) line honours trophy), with a Geelong-Melbourne race on Thurs 22nd and then the FOS Melb-Geelong race on Fri 23rd. The aim is to encourage as many multihulls as possible to join in the FOS passage race.

After the Melbourne-Geelong FOS passage race there will be no further FOS multi races.

The entry fee will be $375, which will cover both the Nationals and the passage race series. There will be two divisions for trailerables/high performance multis and a third division for cruising/offshore multis.

NOR will be out soon. Keep an eye out on the Multihull Yacht Club of Victoria blog here and on http://www.rgyc.com.au

Tasmanian Three Peaks Race, update from Peccadillo

From the following post on the Multihull Yacht Club of Victoria blog by Charles Meredith of Peccadillo:

http://mycv-news.blogspot.com.au/2013/03/multihulls-in-2013-three-peaks-race.html

I'm writing from Peccadillo, docked in Coles Bay on the Freycinet Peninsula in Tasmania. We were in a commanding position at the front of the fleet until 1830 yesterday when we lost our rudders (yes, both of them!). At 18 knots under spinnaker it was an interesting moment but incredibly fast reactions by Dave Blake and Phil Remilton got the spinnaker in before disaster ensued. The multihull baton has been passed to Steve Laird's 42 ft Chamberlain, and he is currently in lead. Hope he wins - great team and regular competitors who are really sailing their boat to its potential this year, with the bonus of a fast running team. The other multi, the Simpson 30 of Peter Newman, is running 4th.

Until our rudder debacle, we had had a fantastic race on Peccadillo, smashing the leg record from the start to Lady Barron (Flinders Island) previously held by Twisted Sister (1997) by 1 hr 20 mins. We were going fast for most of the second leg until we hit a big wind hole and slowed down but were still well ahead of the rest of the fleet. Then .... oh well, that's yacht racing!

Go to www.threepeaks.org.au to see the finish on the yacht tracker

Cheers, Charles Meredith

see the photos here

Multihull Yacht Club of Victoria, next meeting 22nd of March. Focus on multihull construction

The next Multihull Yacht Club of Victoria (MYCV) meeting will be on the 22nd of March at 6:30pm. We are kindly being hosted by Cliff Howie down at Allcraft Marine. Cliff is going to give an informal chat about the services he offers and Ian Andersen is going to show us through his very interesting Pod cat project which is onsite. The builders onsite have also offered to give everyone a look at their projects which are under construction. There is a bbq on the go, BYO drinks.