Launch date confirmed

The launch date for Truansea has been confirmed as 2/11/2010. Before the sun rises Truansea will leave the factory on a low loader and travel to Wollongong Harbour where she will lifted in slings and lowered into the water. Before the slings are removed Seawind staff will board her to check she is water tight. Bloody hope so! Then the crew from Tempo Spars will crane the mast into place and secure the standing rigging. The boom will be fitted and all the running rigging will then be reeved, and sails fitted. The motors will be run and all the equipment tested and instruments calibrated. There is a lot to happen in a couple of days but Mike Rees from Seawind assures me they are well practiced at it and all will go smoothly. When the launch crew are satisfied everything meets Seawinds quality standard the delivery crew will board her and sail up the coast to Port Jackson, and in to Birkenhead Point Marina on Sydney Harbour. Here final adjustments will be made and detailing completed ready for handover day on the 8/11/2010 to her new owners. Thirteen months after the deposit went down  the dream comes true.

The NEW Life of Brian

Matthew Flinders did it in a Government ship. I have planned for 30 years to do it  in a sailing catamaran. Unfortunately the Government hadn't been handing out catamarans in those years so we have our own at last. An Australian designed and built Seawind 1000XL www.seawindcats.com  She will be launched in late October and following sea trials will be ready for us to take possession on beautiful Sydney Harbour in early November.

After a few days of getting acquainted with her and a couple of day sails around the harbour, weather permitting, we will point her bows out through the famous Sydney Heads and follow that well worn passage north to Pittwater. This will be the first leg of her maiden voyage from Sydney to our home port of Noosa Heads. From here when we are satisfied the cyclone season has expired for 2011 we will depart on our sailing adventure.

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