AAPT

Sean Langman has chartered this powerful 90-footer with a canting keel for the 2005 Rolex Sydney Hobart from Ludde Ingvall who skippered the boat through galeforce conditions to take line honours in last year’s 60th Rolex Sydney Hobart. The boat, then called Nicorette, also finished a close 2nd for IRC overall placings. Not long afterwards, on a social sail off the Gold Coast, the boat broke its mast putting her out of racing until now, with a new rig being built for this race.


Coogans Stores
This Open 66 was until recently called AAPT which owner Sean Langman has raced so successfully over the past nine years. For the 2005 Rolex Sydney Hobart, Langman has chartered this boat to Phil Turner and it will race as Coogans Stores. The boat has regularly snapped at the transoms of the maxis, and the former Nicorette in the 2004 race. This boat will be crewed by a mixed Tasmanian and Sydney crew.