The worst disaster in recent ocean racing history began on Boxing Day 1998, a perfect summer day on Sydney Harbour. Among the starters was "Sayonara", owned by Larry Ellison, the world's second richest man and a restless soul with an almost pathological need to win. Ellison's crew included Lachlan Murdoch, Rupert's heir apparent, a young man with an unquenchable taste for danger. On the "Sword of Orion" a pharmacist-turned-entrepreneur hoped to fulfil a childhood dream and complete a leap from sailing novice to Grand Prix ...
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The worst disaster in recent ocean racing history began on Boxing Day 1998, a perfect summer day on Sydney Harbour. Among the starters was "Sayonara", owned by Larry Ellison, the world's second richest man and a restless soul with an almost pathological need to win. Ellison's crew included Lachlan Murdoch, Rupert's heir apparent, a young man with an unquenchable taste for danger. On the "Sword of Orion" a pharmacist-turned-entrepreneur hoped to fulfil a childhood dream and complete a leap from sailing novice to Grand Prix yachtsman. One of the last to cross the starting line was Richard Winning, the old-guard owner of the "Winston Churchill", a classic wooden yacht which had competed in the very first Sydney to Hobart Race 53 years earlier. Soon, these and 112 other competitors would be battered by hurricane-force winds and 25-metre waves. What made these sailors risk all in some of the world's most treacherous waters? How did the crews of the stricken boats survive injury and terror in darkness and mountainous seas? Bruce Knecht's exhaustive interviews with Ellison and Murdoch as well as all the survivors from the "Sword" and the "Churchill" have enabled him to recreate the drama and he reveals new and disturbing details about the events which led to the death of several sailors. The book is an incisive look at the forces that continue to draw men who have triumphed on land to risk everything at sea.
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To all Racing enthusiasts this is a superbly written Chronolgy of the 1998 Sydney/Hobart Race. It is absolutely spellbinding and very diffcult to put down to the very end!
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May 15, 2009
Excellent Copy
About mint shape, first edition, first printing US edition.
Best copy I've bought and was in the middle price range.
