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Extreme Sailing- Cartwheels at Cowes - the full sequence

by Ben Gladwell, Sail-World on 9 Aug 2011
Beyond the point of no return - Extreme 40’s Aberdeen Asset Management Capsize Ben Gladwell http://www.sail-world.com/nz

Sail-World's Ben Gladwell stepped off the foredeck of one of the IRC Class Zero racers at Cowes, after the conclusion of racing for the day at Cowes Week, and raced around the seawall to catch this sequence of shots of Aberdeen Asset Management's spectacular cartwheel.

It all happened literally at the feet of thousands of fans gathered to see the third day of racing in the Extreme 40's.

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