John Harris set to take third title this season - 18 foot skiff racing

by Leigh Maloney on 9 Mar 2001 The John Harris-skippered Rag & Famish Hotel team is set to wrap up the
2000/2001 18-foot skiff racing season by taking out their third title for
the season as they sail to victory in this Sunday’s final heat of the NSW
Championship on Sydney Harbour.

Harris and his crew of Chris Cleary (for’ardhand) and Craig Ferris (sheet)
have sailed the Rag & Famish Hotel skiff consistently all summer to have
already taken out:-
? The J J Giltinan International Championship, and
? The season-header Sydney Harbour Sprint Championship,
with the Australian Championship the only title to have eluded Harris, it
being secured by John Winning’s AMP Centrepoint.

The Rag & Famish Hotel skiff has won four out of the five heats already
sailed in the 2001 NSW Championship and will be looking to win the final
heat this Sunday. Michel Coxon’s Sunday Telegraph is the only boat to have
taken a victory from the Rag in the State Titles to date. Harris is nearly
ten points clear of Coxon, with Matt Felton’s Microsoft Visio 2000 and
Trevor Barnabas Omega Smeg also begging for minor places.

Racing begins at 2.30pm Sunday with a spectator ferry departing Double Bay
Wharf 15 minutes prior to the race . Tickets are only $12 and can be bought
from the Australian 18 Footers League, Bay Street, Double Bay, before the
race.

For further information, please call:
Leigh Maloney, Maloney Communications, on (02) 9954 6600 / 0418 446 248