Since the number of followers of this blog leapt from about 70 to something over 500 virtually overnight back in July, it\u2019s clear there a lot of people reading this who are not normally \u201cinto\u201d sailing. That means they have no idea what is going to happen over the next ten days (and I don\u2019t mean the American election).<\/p>\n
On November 8th<\/sup>, in Les Sables d\u2019Olonne in France, a British yachtsman called Alex Thompson will begin his fifth attempt to become the first non-French sailor to win the Vendee Globe round-the-world-non-stop race.<\/p>\n If there is any justice at all, he should succeed – if only out of pure, dogged persistence.<\/p>\n But don\u2019t forget that more people have climbed Mount Everest, more people have been into Space than have ever sailed around the world alone and non-stop.<\/p>\n I have just watched a 50-minute YouTube video which demanded two cans of beer and a basinful of emotion as I sat here in Peterhead in Aberdeenshire waiting for my mainsail to come back from the sailmaker and, I must say, I ended up feeling that some people really are special.<\/p>\n If you want to see what all the fuss is about, grab a box of tissues and click here: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=puIgYu7q7ck&feature=emb_rel_end<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Since the number of followers of this blog leapt from about 70 to something over 500 virtually overnight back in July, it\u2019s clear there a lot of people reading this who are not normally \u201cinto\u201d sailing. That means they have no idea what is going to happen over the next ten days (and I don\u2019t … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1325"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1328,"href":"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1325\/revisions\/1328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}