We are not allowed to call him the World Champion because it is not an ISAF recognised International class (because it's only really sailed in three countries), but Barbados-born Dave McGregor has won the Solo Nations Cup, recently held in Holland. The Solo, designed by Jack Holt in 1956, is a one-design dinghy which is popular in the UK, Holland and Australia. There is a pretty decent circuit here in Britain and Dave, who until last year was campaigning in the Finn for Barbados, had been doing quite over the last several months. He won 8 out of 9 races at the Nations Cup, attributing his success to the fitness and endurance gained from campaigning the Finn. He said the long courses and open water conditions, more physically challenging than the inland courses sailed over here, gave him the edge.
Here is a link to the Cup page: http://tinyurl.com/6xtpg6. And here is Dave collecting his prize from a beautiful young Dutch girl:
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