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Yachting Monthly 0shares Mervyn Wheatley looks ahead to his sixth OSTAR, now re-scheduled to take place in 2021, and ponders the changes in sailing through his decades-long career Mervyn Wheatley had sailed 18 Atlantic crossing ahead of the 2017 OSTAR. Credit: Paul Gibbins For Mervyn Wheatley, the 2020 Original Single-Handed Trans-Atlantic Race (OSTAR) was to be his swan song, his final race. But as with much sport during the pandemic, the OSTAR, due to set off from Plymouth in May, has been postponed until 2021. In a remarkable offshore sailing career that has ma...