MIKE GOLDING
Jun 13, 2019
3 minutes
A few days after rounding Cape Horn on the British Steel Challenge in 1992, heading west on Group 4, we found ourselves still on starboard heading ever deeper south towards our next waypoint considerably further west at 50°S.
A storm was building to the west and ahead of us, and we footed fast with the goal of spending the least amount of time sailing directly upwind in the westerly wind to the north of the storm eye.
In the early Nineties,
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