HAMPSHIRE sailor Annabel Vose has been crowned the best young match racer in the country.
Vose, 20, and her crew Tim Gratton and Matt Wallis saw off competition from the country's best young sailors to win the RYA Youth National Match Racing Championship.
The victory comes two months after she was named International University Sports Federation Women’s Match Racing World Champion.
The win was all the more special as Vose had never sailed with her crew before entering the regatta.
The Lymington sailor said: “I had never sailed with the either of my crew members before, with one of them having never done a proper match racing event.
“So it was kind of a put together team, but we knew each other really well from sailing Optimists and 420s and were really pleased with our performance and the win.
“We entered the event second ranked and were hoping to finish either first or second so to walk away with the title is really pleasing and a great achievement for what was our first experience of match racing together.”
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