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Tributes to Yachting Monthly Triangle Race helm

he former commodore of Royal Torbay Yacht Club (RTYC), John Clapham, has died aged 81, Known affectionately to his friends as Clappers, he was instrumental in the founding of the Yachting Monthly Triangle Race, in its present format, in 1986. For years he was part of the organising team as principal race officer. Together with ’s then editor, Andrew Bray, who devised the race, John and his team at the RTYC developed the event into one of the largest and most eclectic fleets in

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