9:47 AM Sun 13 Jun 2010 GMT
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'Tasmanian Match Racing'
Peter Campbell ©
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On Saturday, experience outsailed youth in the opening flights of the Tasmanian match racing championship on the River Derwent. Today, however, youth came to fore with 18-year-old Elliott Noye and his young crew outsailing two senior teams to become the champions and win a berth in the Australian title to be sailed in Hobart in November. Noye and his crew, Mathew Himson (21) and Edward Snowball (19) finished third in the lead-up round-robin of races, with six wins out of eight races, while the more experienced match racing skippers Rod Chamberlain and Nick Rogers each scored seven wins. However, Noye
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by Peter Campbell
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