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Road to Rio
RPAYC Members set sights on Rio
By Stephen Collopy

Josh Dawson preparing for the youth champs

Dan and Leisl’s SKUD18 out racing on Pittwater

Promising RPAYC sailor Josh Dawson has his goals set out to represent Australia in As spoken about before, Jason has been performing very well in the Extreme Sailing
the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo in the 470s class.
Series. Due to his Nacra 17 commitments he has had to put the Extreme Sailing on
Josh and his skipper, Angus Galloway have an extensive global schedule starting in hold and meet up with teammate Lisa Darmanian to compete in the Sailing World
Cup in Hyeres. Along with fellow RPAYC and Nacra 17 competitor, Nina Curtis and
May this year for 3 months which is sure to ink out their passports.
Their European tour will start in France as a prerequisite stop in preparation for the her helmsman Darren Bardock, the 2 Aussie teams took on 77 teams from around
World Cup in the UK. After that, the next stop on their itinerary is Denmark for the the wor