Category — maritime

The Hannan family has acquired the Sirsi marina together with the adjoining residential blocks.

We are pleased too that Angie Kearley a well known local and Pittwater resident is a stakeholder in the marina operation with us, a more passionate local would be hard to find.

Angie will play an important part in the day to day operations of the marina and will also be the spokesperson for us in ensuring that our local area and all our neighbours particularly are kept informed with regard to progress we will make improving the business and the facilities on the site.

Its fair to say we are keen to renovate from the somewhat run down waterfront appearance that we see today and have every intention of doing this in sympathy to the environment around us.

Anyone who knows the Hannan family will know that we are environmentally very aware and conscientious, for example on properties we own elsewhere we have planted more than 20,000 trees in recent times, at our major property in Alexandria, Sydney for example we harvest all roof top rainwater in a program that we call “Canned Raindrops” where water is stored in tanks most of which are buried underground and that water is used to water our own gardens at South Sydney Corporate Park including our own orchard in the staff lawn and BBQ area and the same water now supplies all the wash room facilities throughout this 40 acre corporate park.

As Australia’s largest privately owned printing group our print sites all have the highest levels of environmental accreditation and where-ever we go we are proud of the achievements we make which are often well above the requirements of the relevant authorities.

We look forward to working towards a very pleasing improvement at Sirsi in the coming period and we will be communicating on a regular basis with our local neighbours to ensure you are well informed of our plans as they develop.

Michael Hannan

The Hannan family has had a long held passion for boating that now spans 4 generations back to 1920.

The Hannan family has never been without a boat in that entire time and much of the boating has been enjoyed on Pittwater, Cowan creek and the Hawkesbury River.

The family are members of RMYC at Newport and the KMYC at Cottage Point and in Sydney Harbour of the RMYC Rose Bay, where Frank Norman Hannan was an active participant in the development of that clubs early facilities with the then family owned 65 foot Halvorsen cruiser Silver Cloud. The family also owned the 65 foot cruiser Miss Eve which was originally built for Stan Fox who moored her for many years off Clareville beach adjacent to his home.

The family passion for all things maritime also owns a collection of maritime art. Many of the paintings are boating scenes from Sydney Harbour, Pittwater and the Hawkesbury, with the latest acquisition an oil painting of the old Brooklyn boatshed.

The family has an affinity with the beauty of the area and is well aware of the fragility of the marine precinct that we have grown up to appreciate and respect.

We have witnessed so much change over our years of boating, much of it for the better enjoyment of the boating public but sadly some outcomes have not been as intended.

These are truly remarkable and beautiful waterways, taking them for granted what is around us is our greatest risk.

The Hannan family make long term investment decisions we don’t make them lightly and we have spent nearly a decade finding a suitable sheltered marina, we believe we have found it at Sirsi.

We appreciate the responsibility we have to the local community specifically in and around the marina and will do everything we can to respect the peace and tranquillity of  our neighbours as we take progressive steps firstly to tidy up, renovate repair and improve the facilities as sympathetically as possible.
Our first steps will be to start a process to soften the rather harsh exterior of the marina buildings while we seek advice and approvals on the renovation of the marina itself which is long overdue for improvement.
To assist us to work in harmony with you we would be pleased to receive your feedback and your suggestions.