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Whitsunday Passage was built in 1988 by the O'Donoghues specifically to compete
in the "Round Australia Yacht Race" held in 1988 as part of Australia's
Bicentennial celebrations. She was built in Victoria but fitted out up here
in Airlie Beach as Leon and Judy O'Donoghue were locals who helped set up the
first charter boat company in the Whitsundays. She is a modified Adams 40, a
racer/cruiser.
She won her division in the three month race around Australia, and proved herself
very seaworthy in gales off south west Tasmania. This was a two handed race
and so she is comfortably set up for short handed cruising and racing, as well
as being comfortable to live on.
After this long race she was "retired" back to Airlie Beach where the
present owner purchased her as a perfect cruising boat. Some modifications were
made, mostly to increase comfort, but all the "extras" not found on
a normal bareboat (radar, boom brake etc) were retained or upgraded. She is
now in skippered charter and is particularly suited as a training boat for anyone
considering cruising or racing.
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