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Godforsaken Sea: Racing the World's Most Dangerous Waters (Hardcover)

by Derek Lundy (Author) "Until Christmas Day 1996, the race had been a typically robust version of previous Vendee Globe and BOC races..." (more)
Key Phrases: Southern Ocean, Cape Horn, Les Sables-d'Olonne (more...)
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The Southern Ocean is the sailor's Everest. These are unquestionably the most dangerous waters in the world: hurricane infested, frigid, wholly unpredictable, and so remote, according to Derek Lundy, that "only a few astronauts have ever been further from land than a person on a vessel in that position." Encircling Antarctica, this fearsome body of water has terrorized sailors and wrecked the ablest of ships throughout maritime history. Imagine, then, a rou