GRAEME TAYLOR WINS ETCHELLS AUSTRALIAN CHAMPIONSHIP

The Australian Etchells championship has been run and won for another year. North Sails would like to congratulate The Magpie AUS 947 team of Graeme Taylor, James Mayo and Steve Jarvin on a very consistent regatta in not very consistent conditions. And also Iain Murray and John Bertrand on their 2nd & 3rd places, showing the depth of the Australian fleet.

The Magpie team was behind the eight ball from the start with Mothy having travel issues and not turning up till later in the regatta and GT flat out and turning up on the first day of racing.

North Sails delivered a full new card of sails to the boys for the regatta which they pulled up for the first time on the way to race one. GT kindly thanked Cocko and the North Sails team “for again delivering consistent regatta winning sails straight out of the blue bags, no problem”, a testament to North Sails One Design culture.

North customers took out the top 1,2,3*,4,5,6,8,9 in the regatta with all of our models featuring in the results.

From my point of view on Tango, the versatility of the sails is a key feature. We have used the same models on the boat at the the flat water Cowes Worlds as we did for the bump on the Palm Beach Circle for the Australian, with many commenting on our speed edge. Versatile designs is our one design goals and North’s results at both the worlds and Australians highlight this point.

Hope to see you all at the next event and working with you all as we lead into a very exciting couple of years of Etchells sailing in Australia. Please get in contact if you have any questions regarding anything Etchells.

Report by Sam Haines, Melbourne, Australia