Moment of truth
Pete Goss first experienced the might of the Southern Ocean when taking part in the 1992 British Steel Challenge as skipper of Hofbräu Lager. Halfway between Cape Horn and Tasmania a loud bang shook the boat as the forestay parted. Goss and Mark Steadman, the rigger, went forward to fix it…
Conditions were not brilliant. Hofbräu, despite being such a big heavy bruiser, was rolling along at a cracking pace under the merest scrap of sail.
At 42 tons it took a lot to push her along but, thanks to an army of greybeards, we were amazed to see consistent speeds of
