Laser SB3 World championship challenge for Rod Jones



10:51 PM Tue 22 Mar 2011 GMT
'Rod Jones' Tracey Johnstone &copy
Champion Sunshine Coast sailor Rod Jones, the only skipper to win two Audi Australian IRC championships, faces a supreme test of his personal skill in three major events culminating with the Laser SB3 World championship in England from May 16-20. Jones has teamed up with former Australian Olympic Laser and seven times World championship Gold Medallist Glenn Bourke of Hamilton Island and specialist Mooloolaba sailor Greg McAllansmith in a bid to win the Audi Australian SB3 championship at Port Stephens on April 15-17. Just five days later on Good Friday (April 22) both skipper Jones and the burley Greg McAllansmith ...


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