Sail-World’s Richard Gladwell interviewed Noel (Nitro) Drennan, on the Sail-World stand at the Auckland International Boat Show.
For those who do not know Noel, he is a four time America’s Cup campaigner (mostly with US based challengers) and is a Volvo Ocean race winner, as one of the crew aboard illbruck Challenge in the 2001/02 event.
A veteran of 25 Sydney Hobart races (the latest on Alfa Romeo), Drennan has just joined a very elite group who have won the Volvo Ocean Race and the America’s Cup.
(He’s called ‘Nitro’ after sailing on a Melbourne yacht, called Nitro, when he was young – and the name has stuck. Nothing to do with an explosive personality, or anything like that – far from it in fact …Â Details