Maritimo to globally launch its new M75 motor yacht

A Gold Coast luxury motor yacht manufacturer has already notched up more than $100m in pre-orders for its latest vessel which launches globally this month.

With more than $100m in pre-orders Tom Barry-Cotter is ramping up his sales pitch for his flagship M75 Maritimo Flybridge Motor Yacht.

Maritimo will globally launch the vessel at its own boat show at the Sanctuary Cove Marina on the Gold Coast on July 14-15.

Costing $6.5m for the base model, the M75 is the largest motor yacht ever built by Maritimo with the global launch of the luxury motor boat coinciding with the company’s 20th anniversary.

Maritimo managing director Barry-Cotter said the M75 is the culmination of more than 120,000 hours of dedication to research, design and tooling with another 35,000 hours dedicated to each and every motor yacht build.

“The M75 features are the sum of 20 years of Maritimo evolution, and will be Maritimo’s most magnificent model ever,” he said.

“We have taken two decades of our customers’ experience and input into our design evolution and melded that into what is the most incredible flybridge motor yacht ever crafted in Australia.

“The M75 represents a quantum leap in long range cruising design when it comes to cruising range, offshore performance and on-board comfort.”

Maritimo is also taking the opportunity to have a careers day as part of the boat show.

Maritimo managing director Tom Barry-Cotter.

Promotion

One of Queensland’s largest independent accounting firms has appointed a high flyer as its youngest partner.

Cameron Woodcroft, 35, has joined the top echelon at Pilot Partners which operates out of Waterfront Place in the Brisbane CBD.

Managing partner Brian McDonald said Woodcroft has become an integral member of Pilot

Partners since starting his career at the firm in 2009 as a graduate, then advancing to manager

and associate director.

Described by his colleagues as a disrupter and change facilitator Woodcroft sees himself as a problem solver.

“I have grown up professionally here and am eagerly anticipating bringing my passion to the work that I do with referrers, clients and staff,” he said.

Pilot Partners new partner Cameron Woodcroft.

Pumped Up

While much of Queensland (nay Australia) was in the grip of Tay-Tay Mania last week, there was another sellout taking place – and for an event that IS touring Queensland.

The folks at Queensland Hydro – the new Queensland Government entity charged with investigating, building and operating (pending approvals) the two pumped hydro projects – sold out their Wednesday (July 5) Brisbane event at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre.

While 300 people will attend the Brisbane event, tickets are being snapped up fast for other Queensland Hydro briefings at Caloundra on Thursday and Gympie on Friday.

A week after the Queensland treasurer touted the first of the pumped hydro projects at Borumba Dam outside Gympie in his budget, as the “single biggest infrastructure program ever funded by a Queensland government” (a lazy $14bn project with $6bn in state equity) interest among various industries in Queensland Hydro’s projects is rapidly rising.

Queensland Hydro chief executive Kieran Cusack will provide early insights into the nine packages of works for the Borumba project, which will go to tender this calendar year.

It’s expected there will be a range of opportunities and a consortium named Water2Wire, which is comprised of GHD, Mott McDonald and Stantec, scored one of the first big contracts last month, winning the tender for the front end engineering design for the larger pumped hydro project in Pioneer Valley outside Mackay.

The industry briefings will focus on the first project located in the Mary Valley, 40 minutes southwest of Gympie.

Queensland Hydro chief executive Kieran Cusack.