Pete Goss’s Vendée Globe Rescue: Turning Into a Storm to Save a Rival

During the 1996 Vendée Globe, solo sailor Pete Goss turned back into a Southern Ocean storm to save a fellow competitor. French sailor Raphaël Dinelli’s yacht was sinking southwest of Australia. Goss battled upwind for two days, eventually reaching Dinelli in a liferaft and bringing him aboard Aqua Quorum. Both men survived. Their rescue became one of offshore sailing’s most extraordinary stories - and the beginning of a lasting friendship.