Premier Composite Technologies to build Sydney Hobart Winner

The company will start building prominent Australian yachtsman Matt Allen’s new Carkeek Design Partners designed 60-footer immediately.  This exciting new order adds to their already successful line of custom, semi-custom and one-design production boats,

Allen aims to win the next Sydney-Hobart race with the new boat and plans to have it launched, tuned and tested on time to have optimum preparation before the annual ocean-racing classic.  

In response, Premier Composite Technologies has set in place a demanding round the clock build schedule, which will be managed by Neil Cox who has huge experience in managing builds for offshore and inshore racing yachts, including Volvo Ocean Races for ABN Amro, Puma and CAMPER as well as One Australia and Aloha Racing.

“This is a very exciting project for Premier Composite Technologies. It is a great opportunity for us to showcase not only the ability of our very experienced team to build to the highest quality and tolerances, but to embrace the challenge of using our industry leading technology and manpower to meet a demanding deadline, “ says Hannes Waimer, Managing Director of the Dubai-based company.

“And, of course, on top of those challenges it is a pleasure for us, as active sailors, to be building a boat that we believe will be a potential winner.”

The new Ichi Ban – which follows an esteemed lineage, continuing Allen’s past grand prix yachts of the same name – needs to be delivered to Australia in time for initial testing in early November and is scheduled to be shipped from PCT’s facilities in Dubai in October.

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