Young Hong Kong sailor races around the world to learn some important life lessons

It might have begun only as a search for a challenge after university for Faolan Whyte, but an 11-month journey across some of the most inhospitable and remote oceans quickly became the chance to learn some life skills for the Hong Kong sailor. Whyte, who completed the Clipper Round The World yacht race last month, was born in Hong Kong to Irish parents Fergal Whyte and Carmel Taylor, neither of whom had never sailed. The 23-year-old had been thinking of “my next step” after graduation, and...

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Young Hong Kong sailor races around the world to learn some important life lessons


















It might have begun only as a search for a challenge after university for Faolan Whyte, but an 11-month journey across some of the most inhospitable and remote oceans quickly became the chance to learn some life skills for the Hong Kong sailor. Whyte, who completed the Clipper Round The World yacht race last month, was born in Hong Kong to Irish parents Fergal Whyte and Carmel Taylor, neither of whom had never sailed. The 23-year-old had been thinking of “my next step” after graduation, and...
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