TAMING THE BEAST
No one could have been more excited to receive an invitation for a day afloat with Britannia – not last century’s royal racing cutter, but the recently launched
AC75, on which the hopes of a nation to return the Auld Mug to its rightful place depend. Such invitations don’t come often and everything else in the diary gets cancelled to reply in the affirmative. I had been to her launch a few days earlier; now I would see her under sail.
“All the while it was watched by a ‘spy’ from the New York YC”
The invitation, however, wasn’t for a ride on board – that experience is
