From the July 2011 issue of Latitude 38, that prominent monthly magazine distributed along the western U.S.:
“The 2011 Etchells World Championship regatta was supposed to be a nine-race series, but San Diego’s Bill Hardesty with crew Steve Hunt, Mandi Markee, and Craig Leweck needed only eight races to take the title. ...The win also marked the first time a full-time sailing journalist - Leweck edits the popular Scuttlebutt website - has ever won a legitimate world championship.”
Is this true? Am I the first full-time sailing journalist towin a legitimate world championship?