Yachts & Yachting magazine

FLYING HIGH

It has been a grey, windy, rainy October day and Dylan Fletcher has spent most of it trying to keep a 49er upright in Weymouth Bay. The 31-year-old, who has recently been selected for the British Olympic sailing team in Tokyo, probably had a hot shower in mind when he got back to the Weymouth & Portland National Sailing Academy, but instead he is straight on duty for a scheduled chat with . “It’s nice to get back into that autumnal, windy, wet thing, bring us back down to earth a bit,” he says with a smile. “It makes us realise this is where it actually

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