Yachts & Yachting magazine

DOUBLE CHAMPS

Since teaming up in 2017, Simon Horsfield and Katie Burridge have forged themselves into a formidable partnership. They won the 2000 National Championships together last summer, represented their class at the Endeavour Trophy where they came seventh, and went on to win the Selden SailJuice Winter Series.

Based in Fareham, Horsfield works as an RYA coach assessor and racing coach in the Army, while Burridge is an accountant who travels a lot with work yet still manages to fit in a lot of sailing to her spare time. That said, she’s managed to convince her employers to grant her unpaid leave this year so that they can step up their sailing even further.

Now aged 42, Horsfield first discovered watersports at the Hatfield Marina Watersports Centre in his native Yorkshire. “I used to go fishing,

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