Pete Goss
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| Born | 22 December 1961[1] Yealmpton, Devon, England |
| Website | PeteGoss.com |
Pete Goss, MBE (born 22 December 1961) is a British yachtsman who has sailed more than 250,000 nautical miles (460,000 km).
A former Royal Marine, he is famous for his pioneering project Team Philips.[2] He was invested in the Legion d'Honneur for saving fellow sailor Raphaël Dinelli in the 1996 Vendée Globe solo around the world yacht race. During a severe storm in the Southern Ocean, he turned his boat around and spent two days sailing into hurricane-force winds, finally finding Dinelli in a life-raft that had been dropped by an Australian Air Force plane shortly before the yacht had sunk. Dinelli is said to have come aboard clutching a bottle of champagne.[3]
He trained the original set of amateur crews for the British Steel Challenge, and competed in the race on board Hoffbräu Lager, coming 3rd overall.
Goss lives in Torpoint, Cornwall,[4] and has three children: Alex, Livvy and Eliot.
In June 2008, Goss launched a replica of a 19th-century wooden lugger called Spirit of Mystery. Four months later, he began a voyage from Cornwall to Australia on the boat, which has no modern electrical or navigation systems.[5]
Creative works[edit]
- Close to the Wind[1] (1999)
References[edit]
- ^ a b Goss, Pete (1999). Close to the Wind. Da Capo Press. ISBN 978-0-7867-0607-5.
- ^ "Team Philips yacht lost". BBC. 22 December 2000. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
- ^ Zimmermann, Tim (2002) The Race: the first non-stop, round-the-world, no-holds-barred sailing competition. London: Orion ISBN 978-0-7528-4165-6; p. 76
- ^ "Pete Goss plans South Pole trek". BBC. 16 May 2003. Archived from the original on 18 June 2003.
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- ^ "Official Spirit of Mystery website". PeteGoss.com. Archived from the original on 11 June 2008.
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- Recipients of the Legion of Honour
- Royal Marines ranks
- Members of the Order of the British Empire
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