6259 x 6260 px | 53 x 53 cm | 20,9 x 20,9 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
1990
Ubicazione:
London, United Kingdom
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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.
