In the second leg of Sam Llewellyn’s Whitbread-tribute novel, the skipper of the British entry, Chinamite, has suffered a heart attack. The yacht has hit a whale and the rudder is broken. They are in the big waves of the Southern Ocean and the crew must act fast.
Cole said to Eason, ‘Set up the welding gear, that’s a good man.’
He dived down the hatch and ran to the forepeak. The welding gear locker was already open. The acetylene bottle was there but the oxygen was gone. He ran
