Author: Robin Knox-Johnstone
Format: Hardback
You're sailing through the Southern Ocean on an Open 60 when your keel is snagged by a massive fishing net. Do you: (a) sail backwards (b) tie a knife to a batten (c) go overboard to free it? When Robin found himself in this situation during the Velux 5 Oceans Race he first tried to cut the net free from onboard using a knife tied to a batten. He soon realised that the only solution was to plunge into the icy waters – as he recounts in the ‘Sailing Solo’ section of this fascinating anthology.
Sir Robin Knox-Johnston is Britain's greatest living sailor and in this fabulous hardback book he shares a collection of distilled wisdom, acute observations and fascinating anecdotes.