Posted by John on November 15, 2005 at 16:19:53 from 165.91.198.54 user Mcneacail.
The Volvo Media Award has been awarded to Queensland-based Ian (Stripey) Grant who has been covering sailing tirelessly since 1963 in newspapers, radio and TV journalism and web site event coverage and radio journalism.
Sailing has been an obsession and passion for Ian 'Stripey' Grant from the age of 8 when he was adopted as the boat-shed boy polishing the mild steel centreboards and wool-tying spinnakers, balloon jibs and ringtails in Bulimba boat sheds.