Moment of truth
Oct 08, 2020
4 minutes
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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
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