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Top Gun, C 100
à jour au: 2021
1988 plan Low Crowther, built by Bob Shank, B&B shipyard,
Brisbane, Australia, LOA: 50', dep: 3.8t
198? Owner, Wayne
Turner
"Australian Sailing" magazine,
19?? Townsville to Cairns Race, 150
NM: ?e/??, new record
"??" magazine,
19?? "??" magazine,
1992 New owner, Benoit Lesaffre,
and new name,
Atmosphére,
C 100
1994 14 décembre, Hong-Kong
to Manilla, 685 NM: 60h11',
new record, Benoit
LESAFFRE
1995 Juillet, revue du Yachting
Club de France,
???? New owner, ??,
and new name,
Top
Gun, ? 8675
2014 Top Gun is one of Lock Crowther's
finest racing catamaran designs. A record holding 50 footer that only weighs
in at a bit over 4.5 tons.
Top Gun Catamaran Racing is about a 50 foot high performance racing catamaran
that has proven to be one of Australia's fastest Ocean Racing Catamarans.
She is the current record holder of the Hong Kong to SanFernando race and
Townsville to Cairns race, with an amazing average speed of 17 knots. Top
Gun is arguably one of Lock Crowther's finest racing designs. She is a relatively
light weight Ocean racer that was built in 1988 using foam sandwich construction
of unidirectional Eglass, Kevlar and Epoxy Resins. Strong yet relatively light
she is a force in Australian multihull racing despite her 20 plus year age.
The Gun has a current OMR rating of just under 1.100. her home port is Sydney's
Pittwater. During December 2014 she will be fitted out with a new sail wardrobe
from Ben Kelly at Quantum. Enjoyed by many that have sailed on her both locally
and internationally she will continue to be developed and sailed hard in many
of Australia's East Coast races.
13 November, "New Indian Chief War Head going on
next week", Picture from Internet 2020,
Top
Gun, AUS 888
2015 23 February, Sundays Ocean race to Tuggerah: ?e/??,
Picture from Internet 2020,
2016 11 August, Airlie Beach Race Week: 8 - (11) - 8 - 2 - 5.5 - 5 = 8e/16 OMR, Darren DREW
2017 November, Picture from Internet
2020,
Pictures from Internet 2020,
2021 October, From Facebook
"The Mighty Top Gun Is Up For Sale. Chapters in
our lives start and finish. After an amazing 7 years of exciting sailing and
a full refit to bring Toppy to a standard of excellence, high speed, some
cruising comforts and reliability with pretty much all new gear from bow to
stern. If your looking for truely legendary Crowther design thats proven to
be one of the best cats there is and want to sail on a safe high speed boat
that seems as though its on rails. Top Gun is for you. Just recently on a
delivery from Sydney to Mooloolaba we did 285 NM in 24 hours under screecher
only, on autopilot all the way with 15-20 knots of wind on our tail. She's
so easily driven my wife even enjoys cruising on Toppy as it doesn't need
loads of sail up to make easy safe miles. She has a good size double or converts
to two singles in the pod plus a bunk across the rear of the pod. There's
a bunk in each hull with a fixed toilet too. A 45 litre fridge, small sit
at galley and a seperate nav area with a huge custom awning, power anchor
winch and all power sheet/halyard winches makes ocean racing, short term cruising
and short handed sailing a snack. She's currently in Cat 3 safety everything
is current. Expressions of interest welcome at $285K ono, which is a small
asking amount for a turn key modernised 50 foot pod cat of this calibre after
having a refit of over 450k. All details of everything done to the boat are
on its face book page Top Gun Catamaran Racing. If you really are in the market
and not just talking about it, i welcome your enquiry. Please no silly commentary
or price opinions, this is the price and its a price i've set to sell it,
not store it. More details https://yachthub.com/list/boats-for-sale/used/sail-catamarans/crowther-50-pod-cat/263512"