Imagine competing in your very first cheerleading world championship after only a little over ten years of getting into the activity… initially just enthusiastically waving pom poms and jumping up and down and dancing your hearts out.
At the RC44 World Championship, organised by the Royal Yacht Squadron in the Solent, owner-helmsman Nico Poons, Hamish Pepper on tactics and the crew on the YCM-flagged Charisma were determined to defend their World Champion title won last year in Slovenia.