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Video: David Witt on foilers, IMOCAs, monos and multis

by Sail-World.com/nz 3 May 2020 12:50 BST
Volvo Ocean Race Leg 9 Newport to Cardiff Day 4 on board Sun Hung Kai / Scallywag. David Witt helming © Rich Edwards / Volvo Ocean Race

David Witt has never been one to mince words. Check out his take on a range of topics from foiling yachts, to IMOCA 60s and The Ocean Race and what he thinks about sailing monohulls vs multihulls.

Witt's last campaign in the round-the-world race was fraught with ill fortune, but the skipper of Sun Hung Kai/Scallywag soldiers on, sailing a variety of boats from supermaxis monohulls to 70ft foiling trimarans.

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