The conventional wisdom is that, as in motor racing, whoever can take the advantage at the first bend can make life very difficult for anyone behind, but in sailing there are different tracks available to competitors on different sides of the course.
It was hardly plain sailing: there are kids from broken homes everywhere; the parents of one, we discover, were murdered by outlaws.
Where they were sailing there's incredible potential for near misses in shoals the Bergmann was mowing the lawn in forty metres of water.
It wasnt always smooth sailing: There were allegations that a company spun off from ACS paid for his personal expenses, including bodyguards and a penthouse.
It wasn't always smooth sailing: There were allegations that a company spun off from ACS paid for his personal expenses, including bodyguards and a penthouse.
"Shutting off the engine and enjoying the sound of the wind in the sails — there is such peace and freedom with that," she said.
But, beginning in the age of fighting sail, there was a long tradition of protecting convoys against surface raiders, called "cruisers".
When his trimaran was found, ghosting through the mid-Atlantic under a single sail, there were clues to its last voyage in three log books, but its lone captain was missing, and when the truth came out his fate was swamped by the larger story of his hoax.
I'm telling you, that boat has already sailed, there's no putting the genie back in the bottle.
"When you sail, there's usually a coast guard, and you can say 'Oh, as long as I can survive a week, the coast guard will get me,'" he explained, "but you really don't have that option in Antarctica".
