Boat Review: 61 Viking – Robert Allenby Viking

Boat Review: 61 Viking – Robert Allenby Viking

Source: Boatpoint.com.au

Charter the Australian golf champion’s Viking pleasure craft for $30,000

What does golf and boating have in common? Everything. For professional golfers who chip away, day in and day out on the green stuff, floating over calm blue water is seen as the perfect foil.

Just ask Australian golfing great Robert Allenby, who has a big couple of weeks and prefers to spend his leisure time on C’Mon Aussie, his impressive Viking 61 battlewagon that plies the azure waters off Florida and the Bahamas.

Allenby’s favourite fishing destination is Harbour Island, a tiny island on the northeastern edge of the Bahamas. “While this locale is known around the world for its salmon-coloured beaches, what keeps me coming back is the yellowfin tuna that seem to be everywhere at certain times of the year. It is also a great place to catch snapper, grouper, sailfish and blue marlin year-round,” Robert told this writer.

Of course, adventure means everything to Allenby. “Whether it’s fighting for a 100lb tuna or hooking into three sailfish at once – there is always a special memory to bring home at the end of the day,” he says.

You can caddy and crew with Robert Allenby in an Ultimate Golf & Fishing Adventure private charter package starting at $US30,000

But Allenby is not alone among golfers to display a penchant for boating: Greg Norman had an Australian-built 78ft gameboat ‘Aussie Rules’ before the superyacht christened likewise, Craig Parry owns a Riviera 40 on Pittwater, and Peter Senior had a Riviera called Broomstick to name a few.