May 2009 Cover Story

Somersby-based high-tech boatbuilding company, Boatspeed Australia, has completed the building of another state of the art 105ft trimaran yacht.

The new Arabian 100 Class trimaran was shipped from Newcastle over Easter, bound for Oman in the Middle East. The yacht is being sent as components to Oman where it will be assembled by a number of Boatspeed staff who will fly out to carry out the assembly alongside local tradespeople and apprentices from Oman Sail.

The previous yacht of this design and length built at the Somersby yard, “Sodebo”, has now raced around the world twice, holds the world record for the furthest distance sailed in a 24 hour period, and the world record for a single-handed transatlantic crossing.

The first of this design of record-breaking trimaran yachts built at the Somersby yard was the 75ft “B&Q Castorama” built for Dame Ellen Macarthur. Dame Ellen smashed the record for a single-handed circumnavigation of the globe in February 2005 and was only broken in 2008 by Boatspeed’s Sodebo.

B&Q Castorama is now is now based in Oman. Bill Devaney of Boatspeed said that the company is expecting to receive an order for another 105ft trimaran from Oman Sail.

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