GBR's Lawrie Smith takes Dragon World title by closest of margins

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2:43 AM Sat 15 Jan 2011 GMT

'Britain’s Lawrie Smith 2011 Dragon World Champion' John Curnow Click Here to view large photo

Apparently, not since 1978, when he was sailing a Fireball, has Britain?s Lawrie Smith won a World Championship. Today on Melbourne?s Port Phillip, the sun came out finally with enough of a Southerly breeze and the crews were very much ready for the last on-water action of their World Championship. It is little surprise then that there was no one taking bets on whether there would be a clean start, but rather, the idea was it will be a general recall and then black flag, which is exactly what occurred. Many of the favourites did not do as well as ...

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