Sailing Magazine
By Richard Crockett
It’s hard to believe that it’s been 31years or more since those heady days of the BOC Around Alone race.
In 1994 Silke Friedrich wrote in the Sunday Times magazine as follows: “One of the world’s great endurance tests, the BOC Challenge, is under way, and top yachtsmen are vying for the honour of being the first to arrive back at Charleston.
“Imagine being on a boat, 600 nautical miles south of Tasmania. The temperature is below zero, the wind is blowing at 60 knots, and the seas are huge. There is no visibility. There are ice-bergs everywhere. And it’s starting to snow …”
In this interesting feature Bertie Reed, Neal Petersen, John Martin and JJ Provoyeur are all mentioned.
READ IT ALL HERE: 1994 09 18 – RCYC Archives – S&A – OCR 360
