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Bob Fisher with Larry Keating (background) © Guy Gurney / www.guygurney.com Key influencers in the world of UK dinghy sailing, like London buses, can often come in twos, with the best example of this being how the development of the sport here was driven by the shared presence of not just Jack Holt, but Ian Proctor. In the same way, the stories that made the era of the 1950s to the 1970s so golden (albeit at times tarnished) would be brought to us by a pair of incredible sailing journalists, who like Holt and Proctor seemed to occupy the same time and space. The descriptive title...

Jack Knights - Sailor, Innovator, Journalist, and a Witty Wise Man by Dougal Henshall 7 Jan 11:06 GMT Jack Knights Scans the Racing Scene - a column in Y&Y magazine during the 50s and 60s © Yachts & Yachting As the UK struggles with the double whammy of a run of weather that is cold and stormy enough to keep us indoors (where we have to be anyway courtesy of the latest restrictions) it is hardly a surprise that stories in the sailing media are dominated by events happening down in the southern hemisphere. Firstly, there are the near-daily dramas coming out of the 'roaring...

Gladwell's Line: Lessons for all teams from the America's Cup World Series by Richard Gladwell, Sail-World.com/nz 30 Dec 2020 01:28 UTC 30 December 2020 Te Rehutai, Emirates Team New Zealand - America's Cup World Series - December 2020 - Waitemata Harbour - America's Cup 36 © Richard Gladwell / Sail-World.com Just over a week ago, in case you'd missed it, the first of what was to have been three America's Cup World Series was decided in the final race. On the second leg of the six-leg race, a deficit of 800 metres was turned into a 300-metre lead and winning margi...