Category: Sailing
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The purity of the sport and sunglasses
In today’s Financial Times How To Spend It magazine, the sailor Ben Ainslie, holder of three Olympic gold medals, is asked for his view on how the organisers of the sailing at Weymouth have tried to pander to television companies to make the races more visually appeal for the armchair spectator. The final race in…
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The forward march of technology
I spent Sunday at Newhaven and Seaford Sailing Club, writing down sail numbers and doing sums, converting elapsed time into seconds, dividing by the number of laps completed, and multiplying by the boat’s Portsmouth number over 1000, then looking down lists to sort them from finishing order into final places. This is precisely the same…