It’s always the good ones. Always the very best that leave us far too soon, and in the passing of Charlie Dalin from gastrointestinal cancer, it feels the cruellest.
Aged just 42, hopes had been that the current Rolex world Sailor of the Year, would win the race against cancer but “the intruder” as he nicknamed his condition during the Vendée Globe race and that “definitely made the task more difficult” finally took his from a sailing world that truly loved, admired and adored him.
The class he showed, even as a 20 year old University of Southampton student knocking around Cowes and cadging rides on Farr 52’s, all the way through his ventures on the Mini Transat and into the IMOCA’s, was exemplary. We will see his likes again, but with that grace? Unlikely.
Read on, thanks to Magnus at Rule69 Blog.
