Just finished this sailing book. It was about the first "Golden Globe" round the world race. This took place in 1968 when no one had yet circumnavigated the globe without stopping. If you like long distance sailing you'll enjoy this.
The best part to me was the entrant who could have won, but decided to keep sailing.
I still can't figure out what internal compass or drive allows or compels people to take on these tremendous risks for almost no real payoff. I would love to do some deep ocean sailing, but in the end have no desire to put myself in the kind of risky situations these brave single handed sailors do.
I wonder if there are any adventure tours that do a sailing trip across Cape Horn?
June 2008
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