Blue-collar sailors ride the waves

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These sailors don?t don matching uniforms or trek across the globe in gale-force winds like the highly trained athletes in the Volvo Ocean Race.

And though they often guzzle a beer after a race and let some of the strict sailing rules slide, they still consider themselves competitors or maybe even Volvo “wannabes.”

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