Sailing Magazine
By Richard Crockett
The BOC race tended to dominate the news at this time of the year, and as our local heroes were always dominant figures, my newspaper cuttings are thin at the moment with other news. So here’s another on this race, this time written by Henri du Plessis of the Argus.
He discusses the weather options on the first leg in some detail, and while it is aimed at the landlubber, there is much of interest to read and learn from.
“Despite the present positions of the yachts in the BOC Challenge, what separates the winners from the losers from now on is not the distance in nautical miles from Cape Town, but how the skippers decide to get there.
“Although Frenchman Philippe Jeantot is said to be leading with the shortest distance to go to Table Bay, this is measured “as the crow flies” and no yacht crosses an ocean in a straight line.
“Although he is technically more than 100 nautical miles behind, his countryman Alain Gautier could, for instance, be quite a distance in the lead, given the right wind and sea conditions.”
READ MORE HERE: 1990 10 09 – argus – John Martin – S&A – 009778 – OCR_Redacted
