Close To The Wind - Pete Goss
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Pete GossOn the 3rd of November, 1996 former Royal Marine Pete Goss embarked on the most gruelling competition in his sailing career the Vendée Globe. For the next seven weeks of he met a daunting range of challenges, from six-story high waves to battling to keep his spinnaker stable in high winds. Then disaster struck, his sails were destroyed and his navigation equipment failed. To top it all off his radio picked up a Mayday broadcast from a fellow French competitor. Raphael Dinelli was sinking 160 miles away on Christmas day. Turning into the hurricane force winds, Pete 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 makes this book un - put down - able.Paperback - 288 Pages
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