Twins and teammates Lilly and Matilda Richardson, from Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula are twins are trying new things and mixing it up.
“We just got into the 29er,” says Lilly, the eldest (by about ten minutes).
The have been sailing the boat for two months and recognise it is a difficult class to get skilled at. Particularly as next year is the final year of high school. Lilly wants to study medicine, Matilda psychology.
We all get the deal with twins, right? The look the same, have similar personalities, hobbies and passions. Right?
Wrong. “We started (sailing) at the same time but I hated it,” Lily explains. So she boycotted it. “Dad kept shoving me back in my Opti until … I wasn’t so scared.
“I think I got a little bit jealous of Tilda sailing and I wasn’t there.”
Their father no longer sails. “He just likes to come out and watch us.”
Which leads to the