Irish offshore skipper Pamela Lee found herself circling the flotsam of a shipwreck a week ago – not a position any sailor wants to be in. In the dark seas off the coast of Brest, she and her co-skipper Jay Thompson became the first responders in a mission to save two French offshore sailors. Their boat was smashed to smithereens by an Italian cargo ship in a high-speed night-time hit-and-run. An hour before, Lee and Thompson were in race mode, eyes on the prize. But now the clock was ticking in something altogether more life-or-death.  Lee and Thompson were pushing…

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