He came to ocean racing late; as an American in a sport dominated by European sailors he was an underdog. And yet he won his class in the 1986-87 Around Alone 24,000-mile race, beating competitors with more experience, among them Hal Roth. To win Plant sailed through hurricanes, surfed his boats down six-story waves, survived a capsizing in 45-foot seas in the Indian Ocean. Plant's life was lived with great passion; some would say a recklessness. Coyote Lost At Sea explores the events and circumstances leading to Plant's ...
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He came to ocean racing late; as an American in a sport dominated by European sailors he was an underdog. And yet he won his class in the 1986-87 Around Alone 24,000-mile race, beating competitors with more experience, among them Hal Roth. To win Plant sailed through hurricanes, surfed his boats down six-story waves, survived a capsizing in 45-foot seas in the Indian Ocean. Plant's life was lived with great passion; some would say a recklessness. Coyote Lost At Sea explores the events and circumstances leading to Plant's phenomenal success as a singlehanded ocean-racer, as well as the factors contributing to the failure of his high-tech boat, Coyote, found floating upside down, with hull intact--except that the boat's 8,400 pound ballast bulb, designed to keep the boat upright (held on with six, three-quarter-inch stainless steel bolts threaded through a metal plate embedded in the carbon fiber keel blade) was missing. Light, made of cutting-edge materials, and fast, the new boat and its preparation were controversial; Coyote Lost at Sea explores the factors that led Plant to gamble everything on her
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