JJ Giltinan Championships; Crosbie Lorimer's Images from Race 6

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2:31 AM Sun 13 Mar 2011 GMT

'Gotta Love It Seven leads to the finish - JJ Giltinan Championships 2011' Crosbie Lorimer Click Here to view large photo

As a young and enthusiastic dinghy sailor in the UK during the 1970s, it was the pictures of Sydney Harbour 18 footers in sailing magazines that first got me interested in Australia as a place to visit. From recollection the rather naive but ultimately prescient thought train of a twelve year old went something along the lines of 'any country that sails boats like that has got to be a great place to go'. Twenty years later the dream was not only realised by my migration to Australia (paradoxically for reaons quite unrelated to sailing) but well and truly exceeded ...

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