The Yachts

Sailors With Disabilities

Sailors With Disabilities

 

SWD scored a PHS win in last year’s Sydney Mooloolaba and a second in the inaugural Sydney Mackay Yacht Race in the same year. This specially designed 54-footer has contested every east coast regatta and offshore race since being launched in 2000. With their previous boat, Pescud and his crew won PHS Division A of the storm battered 1998 Sydney Hobart. SWD also holds the monohull circumnavigation of Australia record. One of five yachts contesting this year’s Audi Sydney Mackay Yacht Race.

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Competitor Details

Yacht Name Sailors With Disabilities
Sail Number 7878
Owner David Pescud
Skipper David Pescud
Crew Jason Natherson, Allan Grundy, Robert Speedy, Carl White, John Hearne, Anne Lawrence, Matthew Van Kretschmar, Gavin Bellis, Joel Cox, Adam Burt, Brett Pelham, Pieter Reijneveld, Peter Lundie-Jenkins,
State NSW
Club CYCA
Type Lyons 54
Designer David Lyons
Builder David Pescud
Construction GRP
LOA 16.2
Beam 4.3
Draft 3.4