Sabot Championships - Grace Shipway sailing in her grandfather's wake



2:15 AM Tue 14 Dec 2010 GMT
'Sabot Championships - Grace Shipway sailing in her grandfather?s wake' Peter Campbell &copy Click Here to view large photo
Grace Shipway, the grand daughter of the ?Father of Sabots?, Lionel Shipway, will be among a huge fleet of young sailors competing in the Sabot Australian Championships and Sabot Week at Wynyard, on Tasmania?s north-west coast from 30 December to 4 January. Grace, like her grandfather Lionel and father Peter Shipway, the wellknown international ocean racing yachtsman, is a member of the Vaucluse Amateur Sailing Club. 'Very modestly,' says her father, 'her boat is called Amazing Grace.' Wynyard Yacht Club will host the Sabot championship with racing in the Inglis River and on the open waters of Bass Strait with ...


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by Peter Campbell





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