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• DRUMBEAT - Bond's New Maxi • ADMIRAL'S CUP - Complete Preview • BENETEAU 35s5 - In-Depth Boat Test kilometres past Kopperamanna Bore. It was a question of sticking ''The best thing We'd folded down one-third of the doggedly to the wheel ruts, while the Range Rover's asymetrically split rear Range Rover's rubber body mounts and aboutthe seat to extend the already cavernous long travel suspension worked overtime load space. This provided the extra room to dampen the constant jolting. Birdsville races to carry our camping gear without Approaching Goyders Lagoon the cramping the comfort of the two rear rock gave way to sand. Now the ruts had was inspecting passengers. set concrete hard. The fact that we had a 4-speed auto was a godsend, as we could keep both the track:' hands on the wheel as we weaved our The Birdsville Track. way around the deeper drifts and sun The track begins at Marree, the last hardened ruts. resting place of the Ghan, some 700 kilometres north of Adelaide. Range Rover showed their true colours. At Coopers Creek, we encountered an unstable pile of rubble which had been deposited to replace the washed- out road. Then it was across the Oiamantina Others in a less capable 4WD had River and into Birdsville for the races. Rain two weeks earlier had carved declined the challenge. We selected low (Population 100. Raceday 3000.) half-metre drops into the banks of the ratio and engaged cliff-lock. That's when our navigator made a normally dry creeks, which criss-cross With power now distributed curious discovery. the road. equally to each axle, we gained the The sign at Marree said Birdsville Fortunately, the Range Rover's high traction we needed to claw our way over. was 520km north. The sign at Birdsville seating has more than scenic value, Once across, we faced 100 said Marree was 553km south. enabling us to spot these washouts and kilometres or so of gibber rock, which "We'd better go back;' he said, "and negotiate a way around them. was like driving on cobblestones see what we missed'.' We made camp for the night 30 scattered with marbles. & Range Rover. Write your own story. For further information, or the name of yo ur nearest dealer, send yo ur business card to Range Rover, Freepost 15, PO Box 59, Liverpoo l, NSW 21 70, or call Sydney 908 0822, outside Sydney (STD Free) 008 252 022. Range Rover is distributed by JRA Limited. Forbes Mac~e Hansen JR.A 6651 FIRST CRUISING BOATS THAT BRING OUT THE RACER. If there is a sailor out there who has never been tempted to do S T S T E M a little racing in the course of the family cruise-step right up and try something new. For everyone else, a First offers you a little extra advantage: easy handling, willing ways, quick wit. Yard by yard, you catch your"opponent". He starts to fiddle with this, to tweak that. Soon he is re -trimming his sails• but makes no difference. You sweep past. With good grace, of course, a raised hand in salute. Later he comes alongside, intrigued but polite.You invite himon board. His admiration at the comfort,the room on board makes you smile. It isthe welcome your First always gives. For more information about the First of your choice, write or call: Beneteau Australia PTy Ldt. D'Albora Lovett Marine Complex. New Beach Road. Ruschcutters Bay 2011 . Sydney. Tel. (02) 327 2088. ;;1 I v=· u (r- LI > ~::.;:;;, First 305 First 285 First 235 BENETEAtJ"$ THE SEA DEMANDS THE BESI OFFSHORE The Magazine ./ ·.:>::: Of The Cruising Yacht .<\ Club of Australia <:::::-.. ~fbttuM DRUMBEAT - BOND'S NEW MAXI Alan Bond launches his super-maxi on a tack towards the America's Cup ....... .. .. 6 THE ADMIRAL'S CUP '89 Complete preview of1989 Champagne Mumm Admiral's Cup at Cowes ......... 8 Flag Officers and Directors BEAUTY FROM Commodore: David Kellett BENETEAU Vice Commodore: Les McClean O.ffshore'sfirst in-depth Boat Test- the Rear Commodores: David Hundt Beneteau 35s5 .............. .. ... .......... 24 Gordon Marshall Treasurer: Leigh Minehan CRUISING FRENCH Directors: Alan Brown POLYNESIA Maurice Cameron Richard Cawse A possible dream says experienced David Fuller yachtswoman Julia Hazel ............ 30 Donald Graham Gary Linacre SAILING TO HEIGHTS General Manager: John Terry OF ENDURANCE Inaugural Australian Three Peaks Race Club Committees Management & Finance: in Tasmaniai ...... ... ..... ......... .... 32 D. Kellett (Chairman) ROD DAVIS MAKES Sailing: G. Marshall (Chairman HISTORY House: L. McClean (Chairman) Congressional Cup double victory ... 39 Development: R. Cawse (Chairman) Publications: A. Brown (Chairman) Membership: A. Brown (Chairman) Yard & Marina: D. Fuller (Chairman) Sydney-Hobart Race: G. Marshall (Chairman) Youth Sailing: M . Cameron (Chairman) Delegate to the Offshore NEWS - The coming offshore season ............. .. ................. ............. 20 Committee Y.A. N.S.W: D. 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ISSN 0819-7479 Typeset and printed by Rotary Offset Press Pty Ltd. 119 Arthur St .. Homebush West. 2140 (02) 764 1111, OFFSHORE - JUNE/JULY 1989 - 5 ., Bondy marches different DRU BEAT By Hugh Schmitt· · - USTRALIA's hopes of bringing A the America's Cup back to its shores took a giant leap forward in April with the low-key launching of Alan Bond's state-of-the-art maxi-yacht Drumbeat. The media was not on han.d when the "Marvellous Maxi," the only one of its kind in the world, hit the waters off Cockburn Sound south of Fremantle to herald a new era in cup technology. Drumbeat is the harbinger of things to come in the construction of Cup yachts. To be · skippered by WA's home grown world matchracing champion Peter Gilmour, with former Kookaburra III skipper Iain Murray as tactician, Drumbeat is not only Bond's vehicle to get back into active yachting, it is also the test-bed and crew-training yacht for his 1991 Cup campaign, in which Syd ney millionaire Paul Ramsay has a siz able stake. Along the way Bond hopes to win the world maxi-yacht championship in the Mediterranean in August/September this year with the space-age supermaxi, which is 26 metres (83ft) long, has a crew will sleep in pipe-cots, 10 of which Australia II crewman, "and that experi beam of 6.2 metres (20ft) and will be have been fitted down each side of the ence will be invaluable when we start sailed by a crew of 30.