GLENN ASHBY (AUS)|
| | Nomination |
Competing against
one of the toughest
fleets on record and
with no room for
mistakes following a race retirement
with a rudder failure, Ashby secured
his eighth A-Class world title in
Takapuna in February... to bring to
15 his total of world championship
victories in multihulls. No wonder
Grant Dalton was rather keen to
re-sign the prodigiously successful
Aussie to his very Kiwi Cup team
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| Why they won |
| If there is one ringing endorsement for the principle of moving
the America’s Cup into multihulls then the way that the ‘new Cup’
has provided a high visibility outlet for the talent of small boat
sailors like the 8-time A-Class world champion is right up there.
Ashby was Jimmy Spithill’s main ‘go-to’ source of advice when he
was getting to grips with Oracle’s giant USA-17 in 2010 and he was
at the very heart of Grant Dalton’s team in 2013. No surprise that
the Kiwis moved so fast to get his name on a contract for 2017. |
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