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    Rodney Pattisson with Barry Pickthall, Bloomsbury

    ‘Yachting as a sport […] is never boring’. Rodney Pattisson reflects on a career that has taken him from a home-built Cadet dinghy to record-breaking multihulls. The Cadet remains a family, the Flying Dutchman with which he gained his first Olympic gold, is a museum exhibit; most of the other waterbased speed machines in which Pattisson has displayed his legendary gifts as a helmsman have passed in their bewildering variety. His dedicated competitiveness and attention to detail makes gripping reading and his wife Jane brings him to life with her account of their annual, wind-blown trip to the Yachting Journalists’ Association dinner in Cowes, which Pattisson sees ‘as an opportunity to exercise his beloved F-27 trimaran.’

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