Nearly everything I have achieved in life can be traced back to an experience or contact that the sport of sailing has given me. As a kid who lived by the sea it was natural that my parents, both of whom worked, shipped me off to the local sailing club over the summer school holidays to learn how to sail. Neither of them had a sailing background nor did we have a lot of money. From those days of learning to sail to now, as I serve as a board member and vice president of World Sailing, I have got…

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