Etchells Australian Championship Day One - Right was so Right

7:11 AM Tue 11 Jan 2011 GMT

'Rex Gorell Prestige Etchells Australian Championships 2011, Royal Geelong Yacht Club (AUS) Race 1 - 10/01/11 Stormy skies' Teri Dodds &copy

Rex Gorell Prestige Etchells Australian Championship 2011 Day one, Corio Bay, Geelong Victoria. Sailing teaches you patience ? as everyone knows. And so it was on day one of the Rex Gorell Prestige Etchells Australian Championship 2011. After two hours delay on the millpond called Corio Bay the breeze came in from the east north east at around five - six knots enabling Principal Race Officer Greg Sinclair to gun the fleet away in the steady rain. Damien King and his Barry crew from the pin sailed up the edge of the left hand breeze line. Inside him was local ...

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