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Winning Winning in 18-Footers
Dueling 18-footers cross tacks downwind yesterday at the St. Francis YC’s 18-ft Skiff International Regatta.© Erik Simonson With two days of racing in the books, 57-year-old Australian John Winning’s Yandoo is holding a one-point margin over Howie Hamlin’s Team Harken at the St. Francis YC’s 18-ft Skiff International Regatta. Scoring a 1-3-5-1, Winning — along…
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More ‘Stone Age’ Than Manu Rere
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