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Clipper Crews Exhilarated By ‘Nature Unleashed'
Yachting World
|June 2018
What is it like to sail in hurricane force winds in the middle of an ocean?
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Most sailors may hope they never find out, but there was little choice for the crews of the current Clipper Race when they met an intense low pressure in mid-April while racing across the North Pacific from Qingdao to Seattle, bringing 70-80 knot winds and 14m waves – and they seemed to relish it.
This story is from the June 2018 edition of Yachting World.
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