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Andy Rice

‘I LOVE LUKE AND STU’S ENTHUSIASM TO COME BACK FROM THE OLYMPICS AND HURL THEMSELVES INTO GRASSROOTS SAILING’

Idon’t know about you, but I think learning the Racing Rules of Sailing is quite boring. Despite the best (and mostly very good efforts) to simplify the rule book over the past couple of decades, for entertainment it’s just not quite up there with Netflix. However, I wish I’d been up on my rules a bit more for the Oxford and Cambridge Generation Game at Farmoor Reservoir near Oxford, a trip back

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