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67 Terry McDell, NZ Sailed on Pahi. McDell was an International 18-foot skiff champion. Third place with 6 points. Graeme Woodroffe, NZ Sailed on Progress. “Woody”would later be involved in New Zealand’s America’s Cup campaign. Fourth place with 6 points. Dennis Durgan, USA Sailed on Pionnier. Winner of the Congressional Cup in 1980. Fifth place with 5 points. Gordon Ingate,AUS Sailed on Patrician. Crewed on a winning Admiral’s Cup team, represented Australia in the Olympics, and participated in early Australian America’s Cup campaigns. Sixth place with 5 points. Roy Dickson, NZ* Sailed on Panacea. Previous year’s winner-automatically included. Seventh place with 3 points. Stuart Brentnall, NZ* Sailed on Princess. Winner of the Stewart 34 Trials and World One Ton Cup champion. Eighth place with 3 points. Tony Bouzaid, NZ* Sailed on Patari. World ¾ Ton Cup champion and 1982 New Zealand Yachtsman of the Year. Ninth place with 2 points. John Taylor, NZ* Sailed on Pampero.Taylor replaced Bruno Trouble, helmsman of the French boat challenging for the America’s Cup who had to withdraw. *Stewart 34 owner or skipper. According to Peter Montgomery, the addition of Dick Deaver and Dennis Durgan to the lineup upped the level of competition significantly. The Kiwi sailors learned a tremendous amount,from Deaver in particular,who was part of the North Sails empire. Monday was held as a reserve day in the event the racing could not be completed on the Sunday, so the prizegiving was always held on the Monday evening. American Dennis Durgan was not too keen on prizegivings,so he had booked his flight home for Sunday evening. During the course of the week,he had been convinced to hang around an extra day to partake in the festivities, but was having no joy getting his ticket changed by Air New Zealand. Racing was cancelled on Sunday due to 40+ knot winds. Durgan,who was in the hunt for a podium finish in the Citizen,bid farewell to Peter Montgomery on Sunday,commenting that changing his travel plans was impossible. Montgomery wasn’t going to have a bar of it, and immediately got on the phone to Air New Zealand. Montgomery couldn’t recall exactly what impassioned words were said to whom, but a few minutes later, Durgan’s flight had been duly re-arranged. He finished fifth in the Citizen. The media were once again pleased with the event. The Auckland Star asked winner Dick Deaver about the importance to top world yachting of this event, to which he replied“It is very important-just look who was there!” In Sea Spray John Mallite commented that “once again this series has turned out to be the most entertaining of all yachting events.” New Zealand Yachting commented that “it was another step to establishing this event as a major series on the world yachting calendar. “Auckland really struck a boomer when the Squadron and Citizen Watches got together and sponsored an international match racing series. It has become the event of the year, bar none.” “For two reasons this has got to be the most exciting thing to happen to sailing. It’s a simple format and people can actually see it.” “Next year it will be standing room only around the high spots of the lower harbour. With the good review given by the winner, the series will become a must for skippers both here and overseas who want to get to the top in match race sailing.” N.Z. Yachting and Power Boating, May 1980. Sea Spray, in its June 1980 issue, published some of the skippers and crew’s comments: “There is a lot that he (Dick Deaver) feels should still be done to make the boats more equal. For instance,in the Congressional Cup they even go round with a gauge and set the backstay tension the same on every boat every day. He would like to see 10 minutestarts(mostof thevisitorsadvocatedthis)andidenticalmainsandspinnakersaswellasgenoasandsomestandardization