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- Guy Waites
- It was a cold November weekend in 1993 when I discovered sailing, a friend had chartered a Beneteau and invited me along. Word got around that winter and before I knew it I was signed up as racing crew for the following year on a boat at Ramsgate. I started out at the back of the cockpit, trimming the runners, under the watchful gaze of our helmsman Adrian. Later that year we lost the mast during a cross Channel race, to my surprise nobody blamed me?! We had a team discussion about changes for the coming year, "I want him" (pointing at me) "up there" (pointing at the foredeck) said Adrian. I don't know whether it was my runner trimming, the lack of runners on the new mast or the previous foredeck's love of alcohol, but from that day forward I was a bowman! Over the past 17 years I have raced and delivered boats from 24 ft to 75 ft, during which time I've worked my way through the RYA's syllabus until passing my Yachtmaster's exam in 2000, but all the while I've had one burning ambition..... to sail single handed across an ocean!
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