Crafted from solid aircraft-grade aluminium, this hitch will not rust and boasts a polished, textured finish that commands attention. With lightning-quick adjustments, maximum theft protection, and a stunning design, the Centurion is the ultimate hitch solution for your trailer needs. Black Jack joined the race with new owner Remon Vos stepping on board for the first time ever (Black Jack won line honours in June’s Loro Piana Giraglia but Vos was not on board). She was sailing with a mix of French and Dutch plus some of previous owner Peter Harburg’s Australian crew, including former www.qld.gov.au skipper Mark Bradford.

• We’ve worked up to this and we’ve now won every race on the east coast of Australia.
• In the hands of Harburg’s long time skipper, Mark Bradford, Black Jack clean-swept the trophies, also winning IRC, ORCi and PHS classes in a race where the weather decided in favour of the big boat.
• Richard Hudson’s Pretty Woman and Carl Crafoord’s Sail Exchange also finishing in front of her in fourth and fifth overall respectively.

In turn, this helps to cool surfaces and leads to a reduction of interior temperatures. This product is an "investment", and can actually help pay for itself in savings by reducing cooling costs. "It is disappointing, because there is so much hype around that boat and it was a real opportunity to show we have a competitive boat, good crew and all the pieces are in place on our project," he said.

If you find a better price on any immediately available, identical product from another retailer operating in Australia, we’ll be happy to match it. The Club Marine Pittwater to Coffs Harbour Yacht Race presentation took place at Coffs Harbour Yacht Club (CHYC) today. In closing, the 2022 event Rear Commodore of Racing at RPAYC, Robert McCelland and Commodore of CHYC, John Wait, welcomed competitors to join the 2023 race on 31 March, 2023. The Chamberlin 14, representing Cairns Yacht Club and a new member of the RPAYC, was the lone multihull in the race.

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"Until we heard that they were coming back there was no talk about us doing the race at all, the boat would still be parked in Newcastle right now. Black Jack Elasto-Kool 1000, White Siliconized Elastomeric Coating is our top quality, highly flexible, white acrylic roof coating. By enhancing the product with silicone, water resistance, adhesion and life expectancy are greatly increased. This high performance product resists cracking and peeling, while offering tremendous durability, and long term life. It expands and contracts up to 300 percentage with the roof’s movement to resist damage. The coating provides an excellent, highly protective barrier which reflects the sun’s heat and destructive UV rays.

Black Jack Trailer Jacks are trusted across Australia for their durability, smart design, and superior performance. Every Black Jack product, including the Centurion, Brutus, and Stingers, complies with Vehicle Standard (ADR62/02) for mechanical connections between vehicles. Whether you’re hitting the open road or setting up at camp, Black Jack has you covered with innovative towing and trailer solutions built to last. The wind was still blowing knots when they attempted, unsuccessfully to gybe and with the lazy runner caught around the end of the boom and unable to be released, their mainsail split in two horizontally. After such a blistering run into the Rock, owner and crew were frustrated, but continued on with mainsail dropped. Sadly this year a forecast showing gale force winds of knots caused many teams with more inshore-orientated maxis to pull out of the offshore race before it had started.

This year’s fleet was decimated by rough seas on Sunday and Monday, with 36 of the 88-strong starting field forced to retire. Bradford was the only one of them to have celebrated a line honours win as a member of Bell’s 2011 winning Investec Loyal crew. All three 100-footers had started with justified ambitions to finish first and were especially driven by the fact that none of them had won line honours, at least two not under their current names. “We’ve had five, six years in a row now and we’ve finished first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh,” he said.

In the hands of Harburg’s long time skipper, Mark Bradford, Black Jack clean-swept the trophies, also winning IRC, ORCi and PHS classes in a race where the weather decided in favour of the big boat. Here at Premier Ship Models, we have been producing custom-built model yachts for http://casinologinaustralia.org/ over 12 years. Ranging from traditional to modern yacht models, the Supermaxi model yacht is one of many we have available in our custom range.

With continues research & development, many companies have taken advantage of the technologies, lightweight materials to regularly enhance and improve these yachts. Maxi yachts are usually around 70 feet long, with the larger racing yachts at 90 to 100 feet in length. The Supermaxi yachts have been designed to be significantly faster and more agile than the traditional maxi yachts.

It was very good race.” Compared to their Aegean 600 set-up Lucky was fitted with her longer canting keel and lighter bulb configuration for this race. Most of his crew will return to Queensland this week to resume normal life and not step foot aboard the 100-footer again until Boxing Day. It finished fifth in the most recent Sydney to Hobart in 2019 and was second to Wild Oats XI by just 28 minutes in a 2018 thriller. The first 30 hours were pretty rugged,” Black Jack skipper Mark Bradford said.

Within the first few miles ARCA SGR was forced to retire with hydraulic issues leaving a two horse race for line honours between Black Jack and event sponsor Pier Luigi Loro Piana’s own ClubSwan 80 My Song. Black Jack certainly knew the way – for not only in past livery was she Esimit Europa II, but before that was Neville Crichton’s Alfa Romeo II which set the previous Giraglia record in 2008. The Centurion is Australia’s lightest adjustable hitch and compatible with a DO35.

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It’s not optimised to go to windward, but in the end we managed to get the gennaker up and the boat kicked up its heals. When we got around Smoky Cape, we experimented with a J2 gennaker and decided to go offshore, which brought us more wind. Winning awards for many owners, maxis and super maxis can be found entered in competitions around the world. According to racing rules, the length of the racing yachts must not be longer than 100 feet.

Black Jack had been locked in a tight three-way tussle down Tasmania’s east coast with LawConnect, which finished second trailing by about two-and-a-half hours, and third-placed SHK Scallywag 100. Its time of two days, 12 hours, 37 minutes and 17 seconds was the slowest since Nicorette III’s win in 2004. It was the most fancied of the three 100-footers to take line honours in the lighter conditions that prevailed nearing the finish. We’ve worked up to this and we’ve now won every race on the east coast of Australia.