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Poor Euan is copping a pasting around the sailing media in Dog’s latest press release.

“Euan McNichol has again joined us as coach. Euan is a very skilled sailor in skiff classes and a coach with a great set of eyes and solid communication skills. His bathroom bag (cosmetic case) is so big that is needs a set of wheels, but there you go, nobody is perfect”

I hope the sailing world understands the Australian sense of humour…

Looks like Mal’s comments prove my last post was wrong.

Oh well, you can never trust boat park rumour to be even remotely correct. But it was an interesting rumour all the same, repeated by more than a few people.

Look forward to seeing Nath & Mal continue to dominate through ‘08. As well as their heavy-air dominance, tricky and fickle conditions are one of Nath’s specialities.

Apologies for the mistake.

Interesting gossip last week about the split-up of the 2-time World Champion and Athens Olympic 470 team Nathan Wilmot and Malcolm Page.

Now I have no idea if there’s any truth to the rumour… it could be complete bollocks

But if it was true… it would be a very interesting development. Wilmot/Page are up against current ISAF World #1 team Belcher/Behrens for the Beijing Olympic spot, with both teams meeting the pre-qualification criteria (the yet to be officially released criteria). The second stage of that criteria was to be subjective, so you can understand the reservations from a fast-in-heavy-airs team for their subjective chances of selection for a light-air regatta…

More news is sure to come out of the recent AST training camp in Hamilton Island.

How long til someone gets asked to step aside for the incredibly experienced, well respected and (in 49er terms) lightweight Malcolm?