Yachts & Yachting magazine

Andy Rice

‘THEY HAD TO SELL THEIR CARS AND PRETTY MUCH EVERYTHING THEY OWNED TO AFFORD THE TRIP TO FRANCE’

Sailing is a great teacher of hard lessons in life. Our power supply - the wind - is more unreliable than anything else I can think of in any other sport. We try to remember that we can control the controllables; everything else is just needless worry or pointless effort. And if ever there was a reminder that sailing teaches us resilience and self-reliance, it’s the Vendée Globe.

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