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Andy Budgen is one of the most talented sailors in Britain, it’s just that he’s too laid-back or lazy to show it. He finished runner-up in the 49er World Championships sailing with his brother, Ian, just over a decade ago. Since then he’s been better known as a coach to aspiring Olympic sailors, but he’s recently proven that he still knows what he’s talking about as he steered his 18-foot skiff Project Racing to 7th place in the JJ Giltinan, the unofficial 18-foot skiff World Championships.

7th, you say? Nothing particularly remarkable about that, on the face of it. Except that while all the front runners are racing around on hulls no more than two or three years old, Budgen’s hull is a 1995 vintage. That’s Jurassic by the standards of 18-foot skiff sailing. An impressive performance from… Read the rest