Australian 18ft Skiff Championship Race 1 - Outstanding display

8:04 AM Sun 9 Jan 2011 GMT

'Australian 18ft Skiff Championship' Frank Quealey &copy /Australian 18 Footers League

Australian 18ft Skiff Championship and an outstanding display by the Smeg team of Trevor Barnabas, Dan Phillips and Dave Ewings in difficult conditions to take out Race 1 on Sydney Harbour today. The multi championship winning Barnabas stood in for Smeg?s regular skipper Nick Press, who is currently contesting the 12ft Skiffs Interdominion Championship. Smeg took the lead shortly before the end of the first lap and was never headed thereafter to defeat SLAM (Grant Rollerson, Anthony Young, Peter Nicholson) by 50s. Third place went to the newly sponsored Kenwood Rabbitohs (Evan Walker, Jeremy Roberts, Ted Hackney), which finished a ...

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