An insufficiency of adequate adjectives “There’s quiet achievers and then there is Rohan Wood.” The RQYS Sailor of the Year in fewer than a dozen words. Descriptors like ‘larger than life’ and ‘force of nature’ … start looking for the exits when Rohan lands at the Bistro table, proffers a coldie from the esky full of event sponsorship and pulls the ring from a masterful stroke of product placement. At the other end of the scale, dryly laconic Aussie understatement is operating at full throttle (is there any other setting for this bloke?) when he emails Mainsheet Editor Matt Tesch ahead of their encounter that “I have heaps of interesting stories for you.” Five multi-line bullet-points followed, in a brain-dump torrent of abbreviations and acronyms about a swag of sailing events spanning from Keppel Bay to Auckland and Melbourne to Osaka, not to mention the Rolex Sydney Hobart — and that’s only in the past 18 months! After 20 high-intensity minutes’ chat, the empty can is binned and Rohan powers off to his next appointment … those stories … 57 Sailor of the Year
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