Yachts & Yachting magazine

Andy Rice

‘PARENTS ARE OFTEN THE INSPIRATION FOR GETTING THEIR KIDS INTO THE SPORT. OFTEN THEY’RE ALSO THE REASON WHY KIDS QUIT’

When I was listening to Veronika Živná talking about her father and how he is the all-engrossing presence in her 49erFX Olympic campaign, I was reminded of a Philip Larkin poem. The best-known verse from the long-departed British poet is not repeatable here, but it goes along the lines that the reason why you and I end up becoming the flawed human beings that we are is

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