Pushing the limits
Tracy Edwards MBE First published as Living Every Second by Hodder and Stoughton in 2001. The current Kindle edition was published in 2016, £3.99
Tracy Edwards is sailing the 92ft catamaran Royal and Sun Alliance with an all-female crew in the Jules Verne Trophy, 1998. They are in the Southern Ocean and have survived 50ft waves. Tracy, however, is crippled by a back injury and navigator Adrienne Cahalan must take responsibility.
The wall of water lifted the catamaran like a child’s bath toy
Adrienne woke after two hours and checked the messages. I watched her silently and realised how much weight she’d lost. Just after noon GMT, Lee advised us that we could turn back onto our favoured gybe. We had to wait another
