Andy Rice DINGHIES
“One massive detail that many overlook is mutual respect between helm and crew”
Hamish Willcox was my absolute hero when I first got into the sport in the early 1980s. Sailing with David Barnes, this dynamic duo won three 470 world championship titles in 1981, 1983 and 1984. In 1982 the young Kiwis finished third in a very windy Worlds in Cascais, Portugal, missing out on that occasion due to equipment failure.
At the pre-Olympic regatta leading up to the Los Angeles Games in 1984, Barnes and Willcox were so much faster downwind
