A mostly Australian team travelled to the Canadian Great Lakes and won the Mumm 30 worlds. My memory of this regatta will be about the boats that finished 4th and 8th. Both were named Pegasus and the skippers had the same last name Kahn.

Father Phillip and son Samuel were competing hoping to capitalize on their success in the Melges 24 class. Since both ended up in the Top 10, they succeeded on the water.

It’s been suspected that that father/son were more collusive and team race oriented than they might need to be.

This was disproved last week when at a weather mark rounding son Samuel fouled his father. Rather than keep quiet Phillipe protested, his son did a 720 penalty turn ending up 18th in that race.

The daily race report read, “So much for people who say we team-race,” Philippe said as darkness descended on the docks. “If it costs him the Worlds, it costs him.”

Kudos to the Kahn’s for this extremely fine showing of sportsmanship. There’s many sailors that are not blood kin that would not have handles this as well.

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