420 and 470 fans - a big thank you from Drummond and Lardies

9:51 AM Sun 1 Nov 2009 GMT

'Francisco Lardies and Finn Drummond (NZL 52550) - 2009 International 420 Class World Championship on Lake Garda, Italy' Gianni Tomazzoni Click Here to view large photo

470 and 420 sailors Finn Drummond and Frankie Lardies who won silver at the 420 World Championships in Italy in August and are now in the Olympic class 470, have won the Believe Scholarship from Toyota New Zealand, worth $3,000.

The voting closed on 31 August and Finn Drummond writes:

'Thanks again for putting the link up on your site. The voting closed today and we won by 165 votes and we are thrilled.

We just made it in the end.

Cheers,
Finn'

Thanks to everyone who voted and thanks to Toyota New Zealand for their support of a very worthy sailing project.

At Sail-World we are more than happy to help any campaign, club, event or sailors who are prepared to help themselves.

Thank you all!

Francisco Lardies and Finn Drummond - International 420 Class World Championship - Gianni Tomazzoni Click Here to view large photo

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