Close to the Wind - Softcover

Goss, Pete

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0786707410 ISBN 13: 9780786707416

Verlag: DA CAPO PR INC, 2000

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Book by Goss Pete

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On November 3, 1996, former Royal Marine Pete Goss embarked on the most grueling competition in his sailing career: the Vendee Globe, a nonstop, single-handed round-the-world yacht race. For the next seven weeks he met every challenge in his stormy path, from combating waves the height of six-story buildings to grappling with his spinnaker in high winds. Then everything began going wrong: His sails were destroyed, his navigation equipment proved useless. And on Christmas Day his radio picked up a Mayday that a French competitor was sinking 160 miles away. Turning into the hurricane-force winds, Goss set out to rescue a near-dead man on a life raft somewhere in the vast wilderness of the merciless southern ocean. How he did it makes this extraordinary tale as amazing as it is thrilling.

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• Verlag: DA CAPO PR INC
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0786707410
• ISBN 13: 9780786707416
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288