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Sailing Today

Andy Rice

“To me, one discard would be about right for those ‘acts of God’ you can’t avoid”

Ossie Stewart started hounding Russell Peters at least 30 minutes before the starting sequence had got underway. It was the final race of the RS Elite National Championships, taking place in the mid Solent and hosted by the Royal Yacht Squadron.

Russell, along with his long-time crew mates Greg Wells and Jimmy G, had been the fastest boat in the 42-strong fleet of Elites, a three-person narrow keelboat originally designed by Phil Morrison for short-tacking up

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