Dinghy development: Lady champions and Mirror Worlds

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Lady champions and Mirror Worlds

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Topic: Lady champions and Mirror Worlds

Posted By: Simon Lovesey
Subject: Lady champions and Mirror Worlds
Date Posted: 09 Feb 07 at 2:46pm

Great to see all the fantastic coverage of the Mirror Worlds in the latest issue of the magazine, first time an all girl team have won the Championship

But can anyone think of any other all girl teams that have won any World Championships in an open event ????

Simon

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Posted By: lozza
Date Posted: 09 Feb 07 at 3:51pm

29er?

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Posted By: JimC
Date Posted: 09 Feb 07 at 5:11pm

Mixed (the woman helming) teams won the Cherub Worlds twice in the 1970s, but all female teams have been very very rare in the class. In fact I can't remember a single one other than a couple of occasions when the ladies from two different crews joined up to do the Ladies Nationals.

Posted By: hurricane
Date Posted: 09 Feb 07 at 9:47pm

byte

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lifes to short to sail slow boats!

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Posted By: Prince Buster
Date Posted: 09 Feb 07 at 10:05pm

optimist

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international moth - "what what?"

Posted By: HannahJ
Date Posted: 10 Feb 07 at 2:41pm

must've been a squash

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Posted By: cvlsc96
Date Posted: 15 Feb 07 at 1:26pm

An american Joan(?) Ellis won the fireball worlds, in 1976 or thereabouts but her husband, Art, was crewing. They used a split mainsheet led from the transom which was novel at the time (certainly the first time I'd ever seen it) but which is pretty standard now.