Nick Craig Lifts Yachtsman of the Year Award 2011

Posted on 11/01/2012

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Nick Craig Lifts Yachtsman of the Year Award 2011

Endeavour champion and Gill Race Team member Nick Craig has been named as the YJA Yachtsman of the Year for 2011.

The announcement was made at an awards ceremony held at Trinity House, London. Nick not only won the highly competitive OK World Championship in 2011 but in doing so also became the only person ever, to hold the World, UK National and Inland championship titles. He also won the RS400 National championship. To conclude an outstanding year, Nick's fifth Endeavour Trophy victory drew him level with Mike Holmes and Gill Race Team member Geoff Carveth as the most successful sailor in the event's 50 year-history and, by extension, the most successful British amateur dinghy sailor of all time.
The Endeavour Championship is an annual invitation only event, held at Burnham-on-Crouch, to determine the overall dinghy champion of champions from the UK's most popular dinghy racing classes. Winning the Endeavour Trophy is and always has been recognised as an ultimate dinghy racing achievement. So to win five times, representing different classes throughout the years, puts Nick amongst the most versatile and talented dinghy sailors in the world.

Also nominated for the Yachting Journalists' Association's award were Ben Ainslie for his successes in the Finn class, which last year included victory in the Olympic test event Sail for Gold at Weymouth, and Dee Caffari, who became the first triple, female and non-stop circumnavigator when placing sixth in the Barcelona World Race.

The trophy was presented to Nick by Geoff Holt MBE, the 2010 YJA Pantaenius Yachtsman of the Year winner.