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Q&A With Tore Waagen: Viking Passing as a Modern-Day Yacht Skipper

Hard-Charging, Bare-Knuckle Sailor Suffers No Fools

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Peter Swanson
Jan 17, 2023
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Fate brought Tore Waagen from to the United States as a Norwegian child. Son-of-a-son-of-sailors, Waagen followed in his forefathers’ footsteps. Now 62 and living on Cape Cod, Waagen has stories to tell. He is part of a small core of elite East Coast delivery skippers.

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