74 boats from 8 nations lined up for the Etchells World Championships 2012 conducted by the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron in Australia this week. The podium places were filled by three Australian teams after an intense nine-race battle on the offshore courses. In first place overall was the Iron Lotus team of Tom King, Ivan Wheen, David Edwards and Owen McMahon, second came the Magpie team of Graeme Taylor, Grant Simmer and Steve Jarvin and third came the Triad team of John Bertrand, Tom Slingsby and David Giles.