8:17 AM Sat 28 Aug 2010 GMT
In the closest ever finish in the four year history of the Audi IRC Australian Championship, Stephen Ainsworth's Reichel Pugh 63 Loki and Harvey Milne's Archambault 32 Aroona went-blow-for-blow in the fourth and final event at Audi Hamilton Island Race Week to decide the winner, and this afternoon, Ainsworth received Australia's richest prize in sailing. Representing the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia in Sydney, Ainsworth, who launched his new boat in December 2008, did not realise he had won the Championship until this afternoon, thinking his main foe Milne had beaten him to the punch after the results see-sawed between
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by Di Pearson
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