Vendée Globe 2024 | Oliver Heer's daggerboard IMOCA | Yachting World // TRAIN BRAIN

Vendée Globe 2024 | Oliver Heer's daggerboard IMOCA | Yachting World

The Vendée Globe isn't all about the foilers at the front of the fleet. Ahead of this year's start, Yachting World editor Helen Fretter caught up with Ollie Heer to find out about his gruelling battle to just be on the start line, and how he'll be racing one of the straight 'daggerboard' IMOCAs around the world
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