Yachts & Yachting magazine

Andy Rice

One of the questions we should all be asking ourselves is which of the things we’ve had to change during the pandemic are things we’ll want to keep once we get back to a ‘new normal’? A year ago, our resident pro-sailor in the Musto Skiff fleet, Pete Greenhalgh, instigated the Corona Cup events. Like an open meeting, except the Notice of Race and Sailing Instructions are little more than a hundred words on a shared WhatsApp group, £20 paid online to Pete, with two ribs manned by willing volunteers, one crew operating as committee boat

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