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.	Rod Jones wins Audi IRC Australian Championship for a second time At the close of Audi Hamilton Island Race Week tonight, Rod Jones from Queensland, the inaugural winner of the Audi IRC Australian Championship in 2006, was announced the winner of the coveted title for a second time.

Audi IRC Australian Championship on a hair trigger
Following the announcement of final results in a protest-riddled Audi Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race, organised by the Cruising Yacht Club of Australia, Rod Jones’ Archambault 40 Alegria leads Graeme Wood’s Judel Vrojlik 52 Wot Now by a whisker heading into the final round of the national Audi IRC Australian Championship at Audi Hamilton Island Race Week.

Audi Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race Fleet Home, Sanyo Maris Retires and Results Confirmed
At midnight last night Sanyo Maris retired just south of Cape Byron due to wind conditions, and thus The Rum Consortium’s Davidson 12 Phillips Foote Witchdoctor was the last yacht to finish the 24th Audi Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race at 9.31pm on 28 July 2009.

.	AFR Midnight Rambler declared the IRC Overall Winner At 1300hrs this afternoon, Ed Psaltis and Bob Thomas’s modified Farr 40 AFR Midnight Rambler was declared the IRC Overall Winner of the 24th Audi Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race

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LINE HONOURS
	Wild Oats X	Finished - 02:01:29:23

IRC - 0
	Wild Oats X	Finished - 02:01:29:23

IRC - 1
	Scarlet Runner	Finished - 02:05:53:51

IRC - 2
	AFR Midnight Rambler	Finished - 02:11:40:48

IRC - 3
	Alegria	Finished - 02:15:49:35

IRC - 4
	Aileron	Finished - 02:18:10:24

PHS - 1
	Mahligai	Finished - 02:14:20:21

PHS - 2
	SES Inch by Winch	Finished - 03:01:58:25

One For The Road
Since acquiring the yacht in December 2006, CYCA Ocean Racing Rookie of the Year for 2008 Kym Butler and his crew including CYCA Crewman of the year Tony Purkiss, have contested most of the long races on the NSW coast including Audi Sydney Gold Coast in 2007 and 2008, Audi Sydney Offshore Newcastle Yacht Race in 2007 and 2008, Pittwater-Coffs Harbour 2008, Gosford-Lord Howe Island 2008 (3rd on IRC) and Rolex Sydney Hobart 2008.

The Audi Sydney Gold Coast Yacht Race is organised by Cruising Yacht Club of Australia with the co-operation of the Southport Yacht Club

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