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Bermuda Race Competitor Sleijride Featured in Sail Magazine

December 4, 2014

By Rush Hambleton

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Crew of Sleijride, halfway to Bermuda. Photo by Adam Cort
Crew of Sleijride, halfway to Bermuda.
Photo by Adam Cort

This past June, as I was getting ready for my own first go at the race, I couldn’t help wondering if I really belonged there. My ride to Bermuda was a fairly ordinary one—a vintage J/37 performance cruiser named Sleijride that paled in comparison to the various grand-prix offshore racers around us in the harbor—and our crew was an equally humble one, with only limited racing experience: worlds apart from the pro crews and rock stars aboard boats like the mini-maxis Bella Mente and Shockwave.

Still, a funny thing happened on the way to Bermuda.

Complete story continues at Sailmagazine.com

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