Titoki (DH)

Tim Binns entered Titoki in the 80th Sydney Hobart as part of an ongoing program of double handed offshore racing and cruising. His co-skipper and partner, Frances Beaumont, has skippered Titoki in ‘She Sails’ events, held at various venues across NSW.

Titotki was built in Auckland, relocating to Australia in 1985 and raced out of MHYC in the 1990s. She moved to Lake Macquarie and was purchased by Binns in 2018, undergoing an extensive refit. During Titoki’s life, she has been modified by the addition of a sugar scoop to her transom, a bowsprit and a Farr 40 keel and rudder and won her division in the 2025 Australia Day Regatta.

Titoki’s name comes from the native NZ flowering tree in the Mangakahia Valley on the North Island and speaks to her heritage as a NZ made boat. Both Binns and Beaumont are retired from service in the Navy.

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