SA’s Tarboton bags podium spot at Kiel Week while Kavanagh and Slater make gold fleet

Published Mon 04 Jul 2022

Several South African sailors produced impressive performances at the recently concluded Kiel Week where around 5000 competitors converged on the German city for the prestigious nine-day event.

Kiel Week includes numerous different classes, one of which was the Musto Skiff World Championships where South African Andy Tarboton finished in second place overall.

The Musto Skiff is a single-handed trapeze dinghy, considered to be one of the fastest and most exciting single-handed boats.

Tarboton reached the podium in six of his 10 races, managing top spot in race four to finish second behind Britain’s Rick Peacock... Read more...


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