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A YEAR TO REMEMBER
tantly everyone feels that they could get that 'break' or that 'private breeze' that would bring them in first. 4) The camaraderie is the best of the year and the race is a crapshoot. What could be better? Hey, it’s a fiasco!"
A fiasco indeed. And now that you've read about how fun this wacky race is, we expect more shorthanded sailors than ever next January. It could be your year, if there's some breeze. In the best-case scenario, you study the con-
ditions for a week and win the race! The worst that can happen is that you sit around drifting, or at anchor, telling stories with your sailing buddies about the year it really blew. — latitude/ross March, 2014 •
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