Optimistic sailing start for skipper Andrew Hunn

10:07 AM Sat 6 Nov 2010 GMT

'DSC 0668 - Bellerive Pennant series 2010' . Click Here to view large photo

Champion Hobart yachtsman Andrew Hunn got some unusual sail training today before today's Bellerive Yacht Club pennant racing in his state-of-the-art Farr 40 Voodoo Chile. Hunn squeezed his tall frame into his son Isaac's tiny Optimist dinghy for an off-the-beach sail at Sandy Bay Sailing's learn-to-sail day off Nutgrove Beach - and promptly capsized! 'I think I'm a little too big for an Opti, but they are great fun for the kids to sail,' a very wet Hunn said. 'Perhaps it will give me some good training for this afternoon in the Farr 40.' It certainly did, as Hunn steered ...

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by Peter Campbell

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