MYCQ hosts Taipan High Performance Catamaran Championships

by Jim Fern on 12 Apr 2002 Taipans are coming to the Multihull Yacht Club Queensland Inc at Manly over the weekend of the 13 and 14 April 2002. The Taipan is a class of high performance catamarans which is capable of speeds faster than the true wind. The 4.9 metre Taipan is sailed in two modes: two sails and two people or one sail and one person. The 5.7 metre Taipan is a high powered cat sporting a spinnaker as standard. The Austalian designed Taipan class is barely a decade old, and a fleet of 300 are distributed across the country and overseas.

In late March, a fleet of 30 Taipans arrived to contest the Queensland State Titles, but the event was a wash-out with no wind on the first two days and gale-force winds on the last two days.

The revised state titles should see a large fleet competing from Queensland's most prominent Taipan club - the MYCQ at Darling Point.
For more information, contact the Taipan President, David Elliott on 0414 402226.

The MYCQ web page www.mycq.org.au contains plenty of exciting pictures of Taipan catamarans at speed.