Record Breaking Boat, Record Breaking Team
When Michael Walsh, Phil Barnett and Neil Paton teamed in the 18ft Skiff Prudential and won the 1989 JJ Giltinan World Championship on Sydney Harbour, they equalled the 1981 record set by the legendary Color 7 team of Iain Murray, Andrew Buckland and Don Buckley. The Prudential team won all seven races of the championship, with margins ranging from 1m40s to 7m, in a boat which had previously won the prestigious event at Perth, WA in 1987. This achievement, however, is just part of an intriguing story of boat and skipper. In 1987, 18ft skiff administrators decided to take the JJ Giltinan world...
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