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“We gybed at Bembridge and pushed hard as we didn’t know what we would face at Ventnor and St Catherine’s. We debated whether to go high and hope for breeze under the cliffs or to take the rum line. In the end, we stayed inshore and it paid off. There was less breeze, but we wriggled through before the big wind hole came in.”