Close to the Wind
An Extraordinary Story of Triumph Over Adversity
by Pete Goss
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Pete Goss became a national and international hero when he rescued French yachtsman Raphael Dinelli as his boat sank beneath him in the roundtheworld singlehanded sailing race, the Vendee Globe, on Christmas Day 1996. In doing so Pete scuppered his own chances in the race but was awarded the Legion d'Honneur by France's president and made a frie...
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