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matt1

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Alex Thomson has announced his co skipper for the Fastnet, Ollie Heer. Apparently Ollie has done 50k miles on the boat. Wow! How do you get to do that mileage? Come to think of it: given Hugo Boss aborted the TJV and then Vendee (both of which Ollie wasn’t on board for) how has the boat even acquired 50k miles? They must put in a serious amount of training / mile building leading up to races
 

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I thought that too. Seems an extraordinary number.
Given the boats unreliability it felt like it had hardly been sailed at all.
 

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Alex Thomson has announced his co skipper for the Fastnet, Ollie Heer. Apparently Ollie has done 50k miles on the boat. Wow! How do you get to do that mileage? Come to think of it: given Hugo Boss aborted the TJV and then Vendee (both of which Ollie wasn’t on board for) how has the boat even acquired 50k miles? They must put in a serious amount of training / mile building leading up to races

Assuming he was in the return crew there's 8000 (ish) miles in the sail back from South Africa after the aborted Vendee.. but it's still a huge number of miles!
 
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