Etienne Giroire // Whitbread Race
On the Wind Sailing
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The Life and Times of a Wreck
The boat was sold as a right to some, for cash. The boom was missing, the winches were missing, the hammers were like this. So he gave it to a non-profit university up in Melbourne for a good tax-fied-off. We did well there. But nothing much you could do with the boat. It just sat there, and sat there for 10 years. And we wanted to waste everything. I drew a blue tailed head on the mess with the like this. That was the idea. This was very much a straight out. He's one of the few Americans, designers, multi-hole designers who spent a lot of time thinking about forms
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