Rescue At Sea

In the early afternoon of November 30, Kevin Escoffier was dashing through the Southern Ocean aboard his IMOCA 60, PRB, one of 33 skippers competing in the Vendée Globe nonstop solo around-the-world race. By any measure, things were going well. He was in third place, hot on the ...read more

Around 1345 UTC on Monday afternoon, Vendee Globe competitor Kevin Escoffier (PRB) activated his EPIRB 840 miles southeast of The Cape of Good Hope, in the heart of the Southern Ocean amid some of the most violent water anywhere on Earth. Shortly after, he managed to get a ...read more

SAIL’s former editor-in-chief, Peter Nielsen, was recently rescued by a Chinese fishing boat after the catamaran he was crewing aboard struck a whale. According to Pete, the boat, One Tree Island, was in the middle of the Pacific, about 2,300 miles from both Panama and Tahiti, ...read more