I used to teach beginners how to sail on Pittwater north of Sydney in the then new Corsair dinghy designed by the famous ALAN PAYNE. This boat loaded with raw beginners would absorb totally incompetent handling and come up for more. After one forgettable session I found my self thinking, wow you could sail anywhere in this boat, and it would look after you. Eight years later I took the opportunity to sail a corsair dinghy named Sundance North from Sydney.

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Ian Marcovitch Company Director of Redhead Sails has published numerous articles.

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I used to teach beginners how to sail on Pittwater north of Sydney in the then new Corsair dinghy designed by the famous ALAN PAYNE. This boat loaded with raw beginners would absorb totally incompetent handling and come up for more. After one forgettable session I found my self thinking, wow you could sail anywhere in this boat, and it would look after you. Eight years later I took the opportunity to sail a corsair dinghy named Sundance North from Sydney.

Australian Seacraft Power and Sail Magazine, Sundance (Ed. Hopkin), P. Vol 51-54, No 2-4.

Multihull World Magazine. (Ed Fallows) 1988 Vol 1, No 3.

Cat and Board Sailor. 1984

Multihull World, 1993. Vol 5, No 3.

Cat Sailor Magazine 1988. No 42

Gosford Star. March 13 1990.

Marcovitch, I. Centre of attention. Australian Paper TIger Newsletter. Issue 7, November 2011.