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Professional sailor and boat captain LIZ WARDLEY tells ANDY RICE how to troubleshoot issues at sea

Liz Wardley, by her own admission, hated school. “I was a very bad student, but if I can learn a skill that’s going to help me make the boat go faster, then I think it’s crazy not to learn it,” she explains.

Wardley has since turned herself into a multi-talented troubleshooter.

“When I got into offshore sailing I had a lot less sailing experience than a lot of the other people around, so I wanted to make myself

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