Peter Goss, round the world sailor who has sailed more than 250,000 nautical miles, seen here in the hanger building the Team Philips catamaran.
Peter Goss, round the world sailor who has sailed more than 250,000 nautical miles, seen here in the hanger building the Team Philips catamaran. *** Local Caption *** On November 3, 1996, former Royal Marine Pete Goss embarked on the most grueling competition in his sailing career, the Vendée 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. Suddenly everything began going wrong: His sails were destroyed, his navigation equipment proved useless. And then 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.
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