on the water
Island Life - June/July 2010
25 Round the Island events, he remains
knowledge orientated, and if people
the propeller and the engine cut out. So
nervous that one day the record will be
come to regattas they can lose races by
I had to go over the side of the rib to
bettered, and of course would love to
not having that local knowledge. You
cut it free. I didn’t have a wet suit, so I
do it himself.
need that bolted alongside your sailing
planned it all out.
Overall classification meant that
despite breaking the record the crew
knowledge. It levels the playing field for
anyone sailing here.”
did not actually finish first, and a
So what about those hairy moments
“I even phoned the wife and told
her what I was doing, saying it was
not dangerous, but I would be going
few years later Graham suff W&VBF