OzOne wrote in message ...
On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 00:45:53 GMT, "Maxprop"
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"DSK" wrote in message
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Larry Ellison commented in a post-race interview that he thought,
once or twice, that he and his crew might actually survive the '98
Hobart
while they were in the midst of the storm.

Actually they were souoth of the worst part of it.

Now that you mention it, I seem to recall that. Sayonara was fast enough
to
beat the worst of the storm. The heavy Winston Churchill wasn't, sadly.

Max

That's true.
IIRC, Sayonara was the furthest boat out to sea and ahead of the
fleet.
The main inpact of the storm slipped inside her and caught the bulk of
the fleet.

Considering the beating that Sayonara took, the rest of the fleet must have
thought they'd died and gone to hell.

Max