Rescue from Beyond the Roaring Forties: The Story of Pete Goss's Rescue of Raphael Dinelli Book

The Vende Globe Challenge is the ultimate ocean race: a singlehanded circumnavigation, without port of call and without outside assistance. Raphael Dinelli, youngest and least experienced of the sixteen yachtsmen and women to set sail in November 1996 for what was to prove the most dramatic race in its history, was without doubt the luckiest of them all. Here, for the first time, he tells the story of his horrendous capsize and dismasting in the Southern Ocean--the fear, the utter exhaustion, the numbing cold of the Antarctic waters--of his amazing rescue against all odds by fellow skipper Pete Goss (later to receive the Lgion d'Honneur from the President of France for his exploit), and of the firm friendship this extraordinary rescue was to cement. This is also the story of a burning mission: to challenge the sea head-on. Dinelli describes the struggle to turn mission into reality, from his earliest years at the leading edge of the then new sport of windsurfing to his departure as an outsider in the Vende Globe fleet. This is a story of human endeavour, endurance and, ultimately, survival which draws the reader inexorably along through its physical and emotional highs and lows.Read More