Sailing: Whitbread Round the World Race: First Few Days Crucial with the Southern Ocean LoomingDalton, Grant
填介词。 I am proved to have sailed ___ Captain Bligh ___ his journey __ over 40 days ___ about 4,000 mils ___ an open boat ___ the Pacific Ocean in 1789. 2. Was it better to risk certain death by sitting close together on a small, crowned open boat with very litter...
Last week 97 Volvo Ocean Race sailors emerged from a tough ordeal: successfully negotiating the Southern Ocean racing at the pace of an Olympic race, a pace that saw boats, crews and equipment fail under the duress and saw three of Grant Dalton's Amer Sports One crew - including Dalton him...
of the sun in order to determine the accurate distance between the earth and sun.He set sail from England in August,1768 and stopped at Tahiti where he did the observation.He proceeded to the West Indies and across the Indian Ocean to the Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip o...
The Southern Ocean, though, is one of the roughest places on Earth, with stretches such as the Roaring Forties that no beginner would be likely to survive. There are also places like the Gulf of Aden, parts of the Indian Ocean, and a few places in the Caribbean like Margarita Island th...
is smashed constantly by powerful waves driven against the rocks by the currents and waves thrown up by the wild storms of the Southern Ocean off of Antarctica. Whoever sails beyond the heads of Port Phillip Bay, sails into a patch of ocean which, even on a nice day, is dangerous ...
After succeeding in sailing round Cape Horn, Chichester sent the followiing radio message to London:" I feel as if I had wakened from a nightmare. Wild horses could not drag me down to Cape Horn and that sinister Southern Ocean again."Juat before 9 o'clock on Sunday evening 28 May, ...
Godforsaken Sea is a book about the 16 solo sailboat racers ofThe Vendee Globe race. This solo race is famous for takingsailing to another leveland it took part across the Southern Ocean. It is pretty obvious that those 16 competitors are not „holiday sailors“ – they have been preparing...
Saildrone has a proven history of operating successful missions in the world’s harshest environments, with over 10,000 days at sea and 500,000 nautical miles sailed from the Arctic to the Southern Ocean. This year, Saildrone will launch several novel missions in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Gre...
Edwards brought Davies into professional racing as part of the all-woman crew in the 1998 attempt at the Jules Verne round-the-world record on the catamaran Royal & Sun Alliance. Their race ended in a dismasting in the Southern Ocean before they could round Cape Horn. Davies might have gon...