Antipodean Laser firepower - a chat with Dan Slater

6:22 AM Tue 31 May 2011 GMT

'Joshua Junior and Andrew Murdoch,NZL - Laser World Championships' Paul Wyeth / RYA

Laser sailors in New Zealand have a very accomplished pair of hands to help helm them through their boat requirements. Dan Slater, a proud Kiwi Olympian and podium finisher at World Championship level, is one of the Laser distributors for New Zealand. Not only passionate about the sport, because he's very actively involved at the highest level, he also has some very astute observations about the world's largest dinghy class. It was 1996 when Dan represented New Zealand in the Laser at the Olympics and since then, he has also coached with the national squad and run some very successful ...

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