Australian and Young Australian of the Year both high performing sailo

12:59 AM Wed 26 Jan 2011 GMT

'Macquarie Innovation October 2007'

Everyone knows that the new Young Australian of the Year Jessica Watson has won her accolade with an extraordinary sailing performance, but did you know that while new Australian of the Year Simon McKeon is a prominent investment banker and has won his award for his philanthropic works, he is also a world record-breaking yachtsman? Together with Tim Daddo, he made history in 1993 with the Lindsay Cunningham designed craft Yellow Pages when they set a 500-metre world sailing speed record of 46.52 knots that lasted eleven years. In 1994 they started on the build of ...

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