Woman's New Crew

The Sun Herald

Sunday March 21, 1993

By PETER KOGOY

ONE of Australia's outstanding teenage sailors has been signed on to crew aboard the champion yacht Devil Woman in this month's Caltex Sydney to Mooloolaba ocean race.

Matthew Goulter, 18, formerly of Mooloolaba and now an apprentice sailmaker with North Sail in Sydney, will join his father Leith aboard Devil Woman in the 469-nautical mile race race starting March 29.

The young Goulter is a former Australian senior champion in the solo Sabot dinghies and NSW junior champion in Lasers, now the Olympic one-man dinghy.

He has also crewed aboard the winning yacht in the Dragon Gold Cup and was a member of the teenage crew from the Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club which won the Nutra Sweet international youth match-racing championship in New Zealand last year.

Leith is president of Mooloolaba Yacht Club and father and son will mount a strong campaign to win the race with Ian Griffith's recently acquired Devil Woman.

Before crossing the Tasman, Devil Woman, a Lidgard-designed IMS racer, was fourth in the New Zealand offshore IMS championships in her first regatta and will be a strong rival on handicap for another Kiwi IMS racer, Sydney-Hobart overall winner Assassin.

QUEENSLAND yachtsmen are making their strongest challenge in years to win the Sydney-Mooloolaba race.

Locally-owned Bobsled, an absolute downwind flyer, is again expected to duel with Sydney maxi Amazon in the battle for line honours and other handicap contenders include Corrobboree, Phoenix and Boundary Rider.

Queensland will also nominate a strong team for the Caltex Shield state of origin match sailed within the Sydney-Mooloolaba race.

RAGAMUFFIN, skippered by Syd Fischer, has given our Admiral Cup's challenge an boost by winning the opening regatta of the 50-Foot Class World Cup, sailed off Monaco.

Fischer's yacht beat Mandrake (Italy) and Corum Saphir (France). The second Aussie entry Warren Jones' Sydney 2000 a close fourth.

© 1993 The Sun Herald

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