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Finding sixty-five knots of pure adrenaline in my sixties

11.03

From co-founding Silent Pool gin to jumping waves at 65 knots, here is how Ian McCulloch became an offshore race boat owner I never set out to become a powerboat racer, let alone a team owner, but…

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