J24 SAILORS HEAD NORTH
Ben Lamb, the current NSW J24 Champion, recently spent two weeks at Airlie Beach and Hamilton Island as tactician onboard the Farr 55 Living Doll. The Doll was winner of both the Meridian Marinas Airlie Beach Race Week and the Audi Hamilton Island Race Week IRC Grand Prix Division 1.
In an article in Sail World Michael Hiatt the owner stated “The afterguard did a great job getting us in the right place at the right time”
Another onboard a winning yacht was Dale Sharp a former NSW J24 President who was in the crew of Alegria an Archambault 40 which won the Hamilton Island IRC Grand Prix Division 2 and was overall winner of the Audi Australian IRC Championship.
Also joining the exodus North was Arthur Crothers and Bibiana Fedorova who sailed on Local Hero at Airlie Beach.
Other NSW J24 sailors who headed North for the Audi Hamilton Island Race Week were Steve Girdis and Ray Pearson on Steve’s yacht Free Spirit in IRC Division 1. Chris and Rachel Lee sailed on Toy Box, John Crawford on You’re Hired and Simon Williams on Ruth Magic.