News from the Melbourne offshore scene - Grandpa's Axe



8:14 PM Tue 20 Oct 2009 GMT
'Audi Melbourne Centre - As it was with single backstay set up - all crew jammed into the back corner - McConaghy Melbourne Offshore Championship' John Curnow
The old saying starts with 'It's had six new handles and three new heads.,' which is certainly true enough of 'Audi Centre Melbourne'. However, unlike the rest of the saying - '. but it's still the same axe!' - the boat is now anything but the same.

In fact 'Audi Centre Melbourne' has turned out to be more like a chainsaw, as she has ripped her way through the results tables during the Southern Winter. In turn, that is bound to have made the sponsor meetings far more palatable.

Audi Melbourne Centre - Work was undertaken by her builder, Steve Campbell’s Composites Constructions, while she as on the hardstand at Sandringham Yacht Club. - McConaghy Melbourne Offshor

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