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Jan 2012 - Seahorse International Sailing
Hold me down
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"This stylish new entry into the performance cat market from McConaghy
Boats is planned to hit the water at a dry displacement of just 8,950kg…"

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Dec 2011 - Sailing Anarchy
Nicole Scott shares a look at one of the most enduring Sydney to Hobart competitors
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"As people around the world celebrate Christmas, many are still enjoying the build up and excitement of Christmas Eve. For the sailors in Sydney, Australia, festivities are almost over as the anticipation sets in for the start of the 2011 Rolex Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race commencing 1pm Boxing Day."


   

Dec 2011 - The Daily Sail
Lightweight IRC 40 sportsboat
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"New kid on the block, or on the Solent at least, this season is Jonathan Goring’s Keronimo, the first example to hit UK waters of the McConaghy-built Ker 40. This is a step-up for Goring who is perhaps best known for campaigned his J/109 Jeronimo in the 2004 Rolex Commdores’ Cup."


   

Dec 2011 - The Daily Sail
Rolex Sydney Hobart preview
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"If the forecasts prove accurate, then the 88 crews in the 67th Rolex Sydney Hobart will be breathing a tentative sigh of relief as conditions for this year’s annual Boxing Day run south to Tasmania, are not currently showing a brutal boat breaking, wind-against-current race as claimed the lives of six sailors in 1998."


   

Dec 2011 - China Boating
Hua An Xiongtao Team
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"Huan An Xiong Tao is a new MC38 boat, which just took her first sail in October. MC38 is a America's Cup design. Dr. Szeto is the captain, the team is formed up by sailing enthusiasts and professional composed of coaches, there are  financiers, policemen, engineers and doctors who have rich experience and skills of sailing."


   

Dec 2011 - Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race 2011
Ed's new, brutal stealth machine
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"Veteran Rolex Sydney Hobart addicts Ed Psaltis and Bob Thomas have
always believed the exhausting marathon down the NSW coast and
across eastern Bass Strait can be won and lost in the dark."


   

Dec 2011 - Australian Sailing & Yachting
McConaghy MC38 Get Aboard the Soul Train
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"Evoking memories and emotions attached to 60s and 70s sports cars is not an easy thing to do. The best of them allowed both art and style into their existence, yet they retained a genuine purity to the ethos that form follows function."


 

   

www.sail-world.com
McConaghy's MC38 on the water - a cause for further excitement
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"Around 10 months ago, we had some serious cause for excitement when the MC38 from McConaghy went from drawings to moulds. At the time, we thought that the boat would do to one design keelboat racing what the Mach 2 had done to foiling Moths."

 


   

Multihull world - 2012 BUYER’S GUIDE
MC² 60
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"At the origin of this project is Raphaël Blot, who for a long time now has
been looking for the boat of his dreams: a cat which is fast, even very
fast, but comfortable, for enjoying the coasts of south-east Asia, where
he lives."

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Dec 2011 - Seahorse International Sailing
Owner-driven
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"This first sighting out on Sydney Harbour of McConaghy Boats’ mouthwatering new 38ft Harry Dunning one-design quickly had local tongues wagging… as Blue Robinson discovers"

 

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Dec 2011 - Seahorse International Sailing
Surprise entrant
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"Shaun Carkeek is celebrating the first birthday of his new design business with this highly foxy-looking new 40-footer…"

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Oct 2011 - Asia-Pacific Boating
ONE-DESIGN TIME
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"The new MC38 from McConaghy’s Zhuhai factory offers plenty to
attract racing sailors keen to match wits in a speedy one-design, with
an economical price tag" 

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Oct 2011 - Yachting World
KING OF THE SWINGERS?
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"A bold experiment was followed by an embarrassing capsize in Sydney. But the radical canting keeler Q is back. Matthew Sheahan takes a look at an innovative 42-footer with an outlandish keel." 

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Oct 2011 - Yachting World
BOAT OF THE MONTH Ker 40, Keronimo
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"The Ker 40 offers amateur racers grand-prix performance from a production build. Matthew Sheahan finds out more." 

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July/Aug 2011 - Australian Multihull Magazine
The NEW CRUISING CAT with America’s Cup pedigree
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"Catamarans have never been cooler, reports KEVIN GREEN, as we can see from the busy international scene, where the Extreme 40’s, AC 45’s and D35’s are taking centre stage amid the backdrop of the upcoming America’s Cup cat-fest." 

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McConaghy 38 featured in Australian Sailing    

June/July 2011 - Australian Sailing
The NEW McConaghy 38
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"The boat is light, has a simple flat, clean deck layout and promises to be fast yet easy to manage under a tall rig and affordable to and and to transport writes Bob Ross" 

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Ker 40 Offshore Yachting Feature    

AUGUST 2010 - Offshore Yachting
The new breed of speed
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"A change is blowing through the fleet of fast 40's racing around the world and it is coming quickly writes Anthony Twibill" 

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JULY 2010 - Sails
When two become one
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"is McConaghy Boats' Singularity the perfect combination of high-tech racer and luxury cruiser? Guy Waddilove jumps aboard a yacht that seems to do everything but compromise" 

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MAY 2010 - Seahorse
Confidence
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"Ever so quietly master custom raceboat and foiler Moth builders McConaghy Boats are lining up to break into the larger one-design market place " 


     

MAY 2010 - Asia Pacific Boating
South China Scene
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APRIL 2010 - Seahorse
Calling Number 2 please
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MARCH 2010
Tri just a little bit harder
From issue 111 of The Yacht Report www.synfo.com reproduced with permission. No further reproduction without the permission of the publishers and author copyright 2009.
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APRIL 2009
Risen From The Ashes
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"The new Reichel/Pugh 63, Loki, is a stunning replacement to her lost-at-sea namesake."


 

 

 

JUNE 2008
Moneypenny,Reichel/Pugh STP65
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"Jim SWARTZ CONSIDERS himself a novice to the sport of yacht racing, having only started racing three years ago with his Swan 601 Moneypenny, but he's certainly jumped in with both feet."


 

 

 

MARCH 2008
The Wizards of Oz
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"The craftsmen at Australia's McConaghy Boats have come a long way since their early days building slick Sydney skiffs."


 

 

 

OCTOBER 2007
Starting line
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"WITH JUST HOURS REMAINING before the scheduled start of the 605-mile Rolex Fastnet Race the race committee did something it had never done before: postponed England's most famous ocean race."



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