WHEN a yachtsman arrives at the scorer's table with a 'bullet' to discard, his rivals know that the time to pack their sail bags is long overdue.

And so it was with a perfect six that master carpenter Pete Kinver became the newest National Redwing champion when the week-long series ended on the Isles of Scilly.

The Looe Sailing Club man won every Championship event in his new Clifford Adams-built dinghy, Spirit of Bald Eagle.

It meant that Kinver, who now owns South East Cornwall's Wanless building firm, and his young crew, Joe Palfrey, from the town's baking and pasty dynasty, had an impeccable net score of five, leaving them nine points clear of the chasing pack.

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