“Talking Sailing” From My Archives. You Have to Be Crazy to Enter A Race Like This

By Richard Crockett

The above headline is a typical response one may get from a landlubber about going to sea in a small boat, but to come from a hardened and successful yachtie is hard to stomach.

Yet Christophe Auguin, a previous winner of the BOC Challenge said this: “Just the prospect of spending eight months alone at sea keeps all but the most foolhardy sailors out of the 43 200 kilometres BOC Challenge.

“Throw in some icebergs, whales, frigid weather and frothing seas and even they have second thoughts.

“You have to be crazy to enter a race like this” Christophe Auguin, the winner of the 1991 BOC challenge said as he waited on shore for his nearest competitor to cross the finish line.”

Going to sea in small boats is not for the feint-hearted as it takes a big, bold person to do it, but when one does it singlehanded, it takes an even bigger and bolder person.

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