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A strong contingent from Australia as far as crews, charterers, designers and builders made up around 90% of the fleet.

Leading the numbers stakes were Mark Pescott designs with six Fireflies competing in their design class and a Summerhaven competing in the Open Class Catamarans. Following were the Stealth Catamarans designed by Alan Carwardine with four entered in Racing Multihulls. Also in contention Nina an Andaman Cabriolet built by Composite Catamarans Phuket / Grenville Fordham and Bob Mott. All in all 11 catamarans were built in Phuket, and Aussies had a hand in 15 of the 19 entries if you include Richard Ward’s Corsairs out of Vietnam.

The Corsairs had a good presence with three entered including the newly launched Corsair Sprint Mark 2 of Zam Bevan and Shane Grover from Vietnam. Corsair also provided crew shirts for all the Corsair crews plus a cash offering toward the event.

You will see by the participant’s spreadsheet the state of origin of competitors from Australia. A special commendation goes out to participants from Mannering Park (NSW) Robbie Blanch, Mick Forbes and Brad Archer who joined Nina as crew and Ray Waldron (ray@waldronbros.com) crewing on Sweet Chariot, also Adelaide (SA) Peter Boyd, Brian Smith and Roger Underwood + Graham Rivett (NSW) who chartered the Corsair Zig Zag to make up the highest contingent of crews and

Mult ihul l Solut ions (www.mult ihul lsolut ions.asia) have signed up for two years as naming sponsor for the Ao Chalong Yacht Club’s (www.acyc.asia) Mult ihul l Regatta plus a renew option.

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top: Adrenalin – Formula 40.above: Bullet.

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above: I always put Zinc on for sun protection – have multiple colours so make the best of it.right: Pool at Ao Chalong Villa & Spa.

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Boat/Division Skipper’s Name No Crew Class Country/State + skipperRacing Multihulls1st Java Mick Coleman 6 Stealth 11.8 Australia/NSW2nd Hurricane A. Carwardine 6 Stealth 11.8 Australia/Qld3rd Nina Bob Mott 5 Andaman Cabriolet 11.5 Australia/NSW4th Bullet Z. Bevan M. Grover 3 Corsair Sprint M2 Australia/Qld Zig Zag Peter Boyd 3 Corsair 31 Australia/SA Adrenalin Mark Horwood 6 F40 Tri Australia/NSW Flying High M. Amultz 4 Corsair 28 Germany Galeforce K.Stashevskiy 5 Stealth 13 Russia Sweet Chariot Henry Kaye 3 Seacart 28 United Kingdom Afterburner David Liddell 6 Stealth 12 United Kingdom

Firefly One Design1st Mamba Neil Ayre 5 Firefly 850 United Kingdom2nd Twin Sharks John Newnham 5 Firefly 850 United Kingdom3rd Voodoo Ian Coulson 5 Firefly 850 United Kingdom Moto Inzi Roger Kingdon 5 Firefly 850 United Kingdom The Frog T.Keawwantha 5 Firefly 850 Thailand Blue Nose George.Eddings 5 Firefly 850 United Kingdom

Cruising Multi1st Star Fruit R. Shirokov 8 Lagoon 380 Russia2nd White Conch Tu Sonyod 5 Nautitech 395 Thailand 3rd Seekronghuk Tim Milner 4 11m sloop rigged cat Namibia

2014 ACYC MultIHull RegAttA

charterers flying over especially for the regatta from Australia. If anyone would like to hear what the regattas were like Peter Boyd is more than happy to fill you in – email peterboyd@hotmail.com

Joel Berg from Allyacht Spars was over to crew on Hurricane – not his first time. It’s a wonder Australia was functioning! There were more Aussies out there – forgive me as it’s a bit hard to cover everyone.

This year the regatta began in blustery south west monsoon conditions that never let up. A permanent one reef in the main and smaller jibs were common and as the conditions stayed in for the six scheduled races. There was no problem getting the six races in over the three day regatta. It was more of a problem holding the boats and crews together in winds of a constant 20+kts rising at times into the 30’s and on one

day a 40kt squall battered the fleet with heavy rain causing a white out. There were a number of retirees, some with gear failure, some being sensible and sparing their boats.

Parties were low key but more than adequate. Due to Thailand’s religious holiday Asahna Bucha Day - http://www.officeholidays.com/countries/thailand/asahna_bucha_day.php alcohol was not allowed to be sold for two of

Zig Zag – team Adelaide.

Nina, third. Java and Hurricane, first and second.

Sweet Chariot – Seacart 26+. Galeforce.

White Conch, second cruising. Moto Inzi and Twin Sharks, second, One Design.

Flying High (ex Free Wheeler).

Club Scene.

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the regatta days. This was overcome by the club filling a big Esky full of free help yourself beer and the official bar being closed for sale of alcohol. Restaurant and Bar management Kim cooked up free pizzas on the first night sponsored by ACYC. Beers were sponsored one night by Corsair Marine. Final party buffet was sponsored by Multihull Solutions as were the trophies handed out on the final night. Some special awards were handed out, one of which was a Captain Araldite shirt and cap from Corsair Marine to a very worthy recipient Mark Horwood the skipper/ helm (NSW) of the 1989 built Formula Forty trimaran Adrenalin. Mick Coleman (NSW) got to hold the perpetual club trophy for winning Racing Multihulls for a few minutes while the cameras snapped photos.

last year’s winner DaVinci – Andaman Cabriolet with Mick Coleman aboard, also this year’s skipper/winner on Java.

Mamba, winner One Design.

Voodoo, third One Design.

Star Fruit, first Cruising.

above: Mick Coleman receives Perpetual trophy.left: Bullet under spinnaker.

Keep an eye for Multihull Solutions Regatta and Phuket Raceweek in July 2015 and escape the cold

NAMING SPONSOR 2014 AND 2015

The event worked well as a one venue regatta and those who flew in generally opted to stay 200m from the yacht club at Ao Chalong Villa & Spa who offered the yacht club a special agent / club deal. A great little, very green, Thai run resort on the beach with two great swimming pools to relax in after racing. http://www.aochalongvillaandspa.com/

Organisers ACYC and naming sponsors Multihull Solutions are expecting an even better turn up next year and don’t forget just three days after Multihull Regatta there is Phuket Cape Panwa Hotel Phuket Raceweek with another four days of serious racing and parties – see www.phuketraceweek.com for details. Raceweek is also a one venue regatta and special accommodation prices are on hand at the sponsoring hotel Cape Panwa Hotel and their sister hotel just around the corner Kantary Bay Resort. If you are coming from Oz it makes sense to combine the two events and make the journey worthwhile. There is always a lack of good crew and some boats couldn’t compete due to that issue.

Map courtesy of www.southeastasiapilot.com