Here’s a gripping story from British sailor and author Ben Good recounting his first North Atlantic crossing. Th eboat was the 60-foot ex-Clipper sloop Rubicon 3. The crew of 11 was comprised of two professional skippers and nine more or less inexperiencd crew. The route was from Nassau, The Bahamas, to Bristol, England.
Along the way, they blew out the mainsail, tnhey lost the wheel steeringn and had to use the emergency tiller, the faced gale after gale and, all the while, this bnoat load of strangers got to know eachother.
But, alon g the way, Good and his fellow crew made great new friends, mostly, learned a loty about seamanship and even were intoduced to celestial navigation.
