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    Oct 10, 2019 3 minutes

    Abandoned wreck to Cowes Week success

    Students at London’s Greig City Academy first saw the E-boat 22, Eros, rotting in a car park. Having bought the yacht for £100, they spent six months restoring her before refining their racing techniques aboard Eros. Their first race was the Round the Island Race, and now, they’ve won the IRC trophy for Classes 5,6 and 7 in the Saturday Town race at Cowes Week.

    Unlike Greig’s other crews on the academy’s German Frers 45, , and the X55, , the crew of didn’t have, which didn’t give them much time to prepare.

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