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Seahorse Sailor of the Month: Tony Langley

Posted: 08 Sep 2012 11:52 PM PDT

Musto sponsors a 'sailor of the month' competition column in Seahorse magazine, and we thought we'd share the results with you.

Every month we give away an Evolution Soft Shell Jacket incorporating style, performance and fleece lined GORE-TEX® fabric technology to the lucky winners.

October's winner is TONY LANGLEY (GBR):

'Race winner in the 52s and also won the Round the Island, nice!' – Tom Wilson; 'As good a skipper ashore as afloat' – Mike Barron; 'Has got to be so good by sheer hard work, a great example to owner-drivers' – Rudy Jurg; 'Lends his boats out, helps charities, a thoroughly top bloke' – Jock Stewart; 'Doing well in a pretty hot fleet!' – John Goodwin; 'Serious tenacity' – Craig Nutter; 'Tony is a big reason why the SuperSeries is doing so well' – Tom Burnham.

Seahorse Sailor of the Month comes to you with Musto, Harken McLube and Dubarry. Please contact us at Seahorse for your prizes

NOVEMBER NOMINEES:

DAVID HOWLETT (GBR)

Of course we backed Ben for a third gold in the Finn, but as much as wanting the result for Ainslie we wanted to be able to
direct more credit to his loyal coach David Howlett. Always a brilliant technical mind in one-designs, with his own track record in the Finn to prove it, Howlett found the perfect 'client' with Ainslie whose dedication to doing the best possible job with the machinery available is peerless.

FREDDY LOOF AND MAX SALMINEN (SWE)

It's been a long road to a gold medal for Freddy Loof, whose nemesis in the Finns at Sydney 2000, Iain Percy, followed him into the Star with similar results. Two world championship wins were finally joined by that elusive gold in a breathtaking medal race in Weymouth. 'We just have to try to win and then hope,' said Loof heading out. That strategy worked out pretty well but only in the race's final inches.