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    SKIP NOVAK

    Jul 14, 2022 3 minutes

    Given the current conflict in the Ukraine it seems an appropriate time to retell a few anecdotes of my experience skippering Fazisi in the 1989/90 Whitbread Race.

    When people bring up the story in conversation they more often than not will ask something like, ‘How was it with the Russians…?’

    Lest we forget, the project started out pre-Perestroika and was truly a Soviet affair both in organisation and in the composition of the

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