Andy Rice DINGHIES
Leading up to what was predicted to be a light air Olympic Regatta in China for the 2008 Games, I remember interviewing GBR’s leading 470 sailors of the time, Nick Rogers and Joe Glanfield. “How do you motivate yourself to go racing in no wind?” I asked them. “Light and lovely, light and lovely,” Nick would reply with a grin. And he meant it. If you go on the water hating the flat conditions, you’re already beaten. Ever upbeat, Nick and Joe had to learn to love light airs, otherwise they didn’t stand a chance of
