With yesterday’s big announcement of the new Artemis Offshore Academy squad for 2013, I feel inspired about the year ahead, so inspired I am even going to write a blog.

Ah, La Solitaire du Figaro 2012 - or as most sailors and skippers who have competed in it will tell you, whether this year or in the 43 editions prior, the 'greatest race in the world'.

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