Rod Dawson (NZL, weather and sailing teams) and Kazuhiko Sofuku (JPN, sailing team) are members of the most successful match racing team in the history of the sport -- Peter Gilmour's PST.

They had already clinched the 2005-06 World Tour with their win last month at Match Race Germany, and with it the ISAF World Match Racing Championship title. Yesterday they won the eighth and final stage of the Tour -- the fifth annual Locman Cup – Elba Island Cup at Poroto Azzurro on Elba Island, Italy.

Overall on the 05-06 Tour PST earned nearly $120,000 in prize money, plus a new BMW X3 and gold medals from ISAF.

The 2006-07 Tour gets underway tomorrow with the Portugal Match Cup in Cascais, Portugal where our Skipper/CEO Chris Dickson also will be racing joined by Fuku and other saling team members Zach Hurst (NZL), Paul Westlake (AUS) and Jann Neergaard (DEN).

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Staffan Lindberg’s bowman Carl-Johan Uckelstam is dragged from a
spinnaker sheet after falling overboard in the semifinal round of the
Locman Cup-Elba Island. (World Tour/Guido Cantini photo.)


Mascalzone's Cameron Dunn keeps his spinnaker full and sails out from
under Finland's Staffan Lindberg in the Petite Final of the Locman Cup.
(World Tour/Guido Cantini photo.)


The PST crew (Christian Scherrer, Kazuhiko Sofuku, Rod Dawson, skipper
Peter Gilmour and Yasuhiro Yaji), winners of a BMW X3 for winning the
World Tour championship. (World Tour/Guido Cantini photo.)