F18 National Champions Reveal All

Winners are Grinners

What Greg and Brett Goodall said after winning their first Australian F18 National Champions.

Greg Goodall:

“It’s been a long time coming as we have been the maiden in five Nationals before and it was great to finally get across the line and win it.

“This was a good tough regatta with very trying conditions the whole time and the whole weekend.

“We started the regatta pretty badly with a 13^th in the first race on Saturday and we thought that wasn’t all bad as then we knew exactly where we shouldn’t be going on the course because we found every hole and every wrong way to go you could have found and we did that and then we won the next race followed by a second and a fifth.

“The next day we came out and had a three firsts and a fifth so that wasn’t bad for the day and that set us for being consistent. So that set us up and today that made it much harder the other guys to run us down as they had to put in brilliant performances while we had to put in just good solid results.”

Brett Goodall:

“Our success is due to the time we spend on the water and while we are sailing as father and son but once we get out the water we are team-mates. We’ve been sailing together for so long now, about six years, and we are in tune with each other. We really don’t talk that much as we just know where we are going and we just stick to the game plan and off we go.

Looking forward towards the World Championships in Hungary in July.

“It’s a real confidence booster to know that we are fast and that will definitely help us. We have raced in the World Championships for the past five years and are looking forward to competing. We will try and get some training in beforehand and just have another dip at it.”

What do you think might have given you the edge in this event?

“It would have to be Scotty Anderson’s steaks on the first night. I ate three steaks and five roast potatoes. He is a good mate who lives here in Gosford and he cooked us this beautiful BBQ after the first day’s racing so that may have been our secret weapon.”