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    5 EXPERT TIPS

    Feb 13, 2020 3 minutes

    ANDY RICE gets valuable tips from Volvo Ocean Race skipper CHRIS NICHOLSON on how to nurse your yacht through challenging weather

    To win, first you have to finish. Chris Nicholson needs no introduction to that old chestnut, having found himself in numerous hazardous situations in different parts of the world’s fierce oceans. In the 2005/06 Volvo Ocean Race, his Volvo Ocean 70 Movistar disappeared beneath him altogether when the boat sunk in the Atlantic.

    It’s worth noting that many of the most successful helmsmen in the Volvo Ocean Race have come from a skiff racing

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