In December 1996, Pete Goss risked his life and lost his place in a
round-the-world sailing race in order to rescue French yachtsman
Raphail Dinelli when his boat sank. He describes the experience and
the aftermath in this thrilling account. (Kirkus UK)
Pete Goss became a national and international hero when he rescued
French yachtsman Raphael Dinelli as his boat sank beneath him in
the round-the-world single-handed sailing race, the Vendee Globe,
on Christmas Day 1996. In doing so Pete scuppered his own chances
in the race but was awarded the Legion d'Honneur by France's
president and made a friend for life in Dinelli. Close to the Wind
is his own story of the race and its dramas, his revolutionary
boat, Aqua Quorum, his thoughts and emotions during four months of
solitude at sea, the extraordinary surgery that he had to perform
on his own elbow and the aftermath of the rescue in the Southern
Ocean.
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