Aboard the Express Boat
Amateurs have always had their place in fifty-three years of racing history.
And that's very happy.
Gallinaceans with blunt spurs still have the right to rub shoulders with belligerent and pretentious young roosters wanting to fight in the barnyard.
The look is sparkling, the smile, mischievous.
Piers Copham (
Voiles des Anges
) arrives late for the meeting because of traffic jams.
He hates it but it's his polychronic side.
Last of the first stage with more than ten hours of disbursements on the winner, Davy Beaudart (
Nauty'Mor
), the elegant sailor with the flow of a machine gun says he is British but above all not English.
With a Welsh grandfather and another Irish, married to a German, he grew up in a fishing port in the north of Scotland.
He prefers to say that he is of Celtic stock.
Engineer in research on materials then in chemistry and vegetable oils for more than ten years - and in another life -, the young man…
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