Sailing race/Theories

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Sailing race

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Widmore's race secretly sought to find the Island[]

Charles Widmore designed the race hoping that one of the sailors will would find the island. Not necessarily Desmond, but anyone of the sailors. Desmond finding it was coincidence/fate.