Yachting World – 01.04.2018

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AND ANOTHER THING...


I call it the Golden Key. Some people fi nd it,
others never do and a few special people seem
to possess it naturally. Pete Goss has always
seemed to me a natural possessor, a man who
has lived life by ideals, with huge enthusiasm,
energy and verve. He was a hero in the Vendée
Globe when he rescued a fellow racer, he built a
replica lugger and sailed it from the UK to
Australia, he has kayaked round Tasmania,
raced round Britain, led expeditions to the
North Pole, been a smallholder, built fences,
kept sheep. No job too big or small, but always
where the spirit led.
How interesting, then, that after all this, his
‘retirement’ dream is to buy a bluewater cruiser
and go sailing with his wife, just like so many of
us. Read his feature on page 26.
In fact, he has told only part of the story.
When I got back in touch with him a few
months ago I asked if he still had his farmhouse
in Cornwall. “Oh no, I sold that,” he replied.
“We’re living in a yurt.”
In summer, Pete and Tracey live in their
woods in a genuine Mongolian yurt, complete
with horsehair guy ropes and camel leather
door hinges, and when winter comes they
decamp to “their shack”, as Pete calls it, in New
Zealand. Now they have
their lovely yacht, Pearl, too.
What a great way to lead
your life. I shall suggest this
forthwith at home.

Elaine Bunting Editor
Twitter @elainebunting

the golden key


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Will Dean Barker race the next
America’s Cup for the New York
Yacht Club? There may have
been a clue when he took the
helm of Quantum Racing’s TP52,
the class currently used as a
training ground by Cup
teams including Land
Rover BAR. Barker was
teaming up again with
Terry Hutchinson,
former Team New
Zealand tactician.

In an acknowledgement of the growing
popularity of short-handed racing, Cowes
Week is to introduce two-handed classes. New
regatta director Laurence Mead says: “It
refl ects a growing part of the sport. There
may be two class starts, open to boats with
IRC ratings between 0.900 to 1.085.”

Jason Pickering


Australian sailor Jon Sanders must be getting dizzy. He arrived
home in February after an incredible tenth circumnavigation.
The 78-year-old fi rst sailed round the world – twice – in 1982
and was sailing his S&S 39 Perie Banou II.
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