SKIP NOVAK

I’m often asked by people more familiar with my ocean racing career how I got started in the high latitude charter business. Chartering for profit if not just for sustenance was never the reason I ‘went south’ and subsequently became recognised (as I’m constantly reminded) as an entrepreneur of the genre.

The beginning had to do with what a quorum from the crew of on the 1985/86 Whitbread Race thought was the next move. On the cusp of a path making