Australian of the Year - Sailors take the prizes

4:31 AM Thu 27 Jan 2011 GMT

'The sailors have it! - Simon McKeon and Jessica Watson' .

What a great week it is for sailors! Both the Young Australian of the Year, Jessica Watson, and the Australian of the Year Simon McKeon are world class sailors! You all knew about Jessica, but did you remember Simon's name in the stories of world sailing records? This article is a 'must read'! Living with the production of our Sail-World articles each week, tales of adventure and misadventure from the world's oceans, I think how much I keep learning in that higher skill than sailing ? the skill of good seamanship, something Jessica Watson, by the way, displayed in bucket-loads ...

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by Nancy Knudsen, Editor