ONE of the closest Merlin Rocket National sailing championships on record has been decided by just one point.

And England's 'Sailor of the Year', Nick Craig, who had three firsts and three seconds from the week-long series in Looe Bay, didn't win it!

Instead the honours went to London 2012 Olympian Stuart Bithell, and his crew Tom Pygall, who steered their dinghy, Speed Machine, to four firsts and two seconds.

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