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PARTING THOUGHT

Wandering around your average boat show these days, you can’t help but notice something different – something with a lurid colour scheme, a mildy anarchic logo, something that carries words and stickers unintelligible to the average Hallberg-Rassy owner. This, plainly, is a foiling kiteboard. But what’s it doing in a boat show?

The late and greatly esteemed columnist Bob Fisher spent some time in the years following the Rio Olympics giving World Sailing a magnificently hard time. It was Bob at his best, firmly on the side of the ordinary sailor,

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