Close to the Wind

By: Pete Goss

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Paperback | 9 May 2000

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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. 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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Non-Fiction Sports & Recreation Water Sports & Recreations Boating Sailing Biographies & True Stories Biographies Autobiographies Sport Biographies

Prologue	p. 1
Beginnings	p. 3
The Idea Is Born	p. 13
Cornish Meadou	p. 21
About Turn! Quick March!	p. 37
Round the World for the First Time	p. 61
The Road Not Taken	p. 73
Begin It Now	p. 87
Press On	p. 105
The Single-Handed Transatlantic	p. 121
Off to France	p. 149
Into the Southern Occan	p. 189
A Close Encounter	p. 207
No Man's Land	p. 231
The Home Run	p. 247
Epilogue	p. 259
List of Sponsors	p. 263
Picture Credits	p. 267
Index	p. 269
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