eading Golden Globe skipper Tapio Lehtinen’s account of his rescue in the Indian Ocean by fellow competitor Kirsten Neuschäfer brought back memories of that discomfort you feel after an emergency at sea. The ‘what-ifs’ and ‘if-onlys’ after such an event can be haunting – and I’ve never had to sit in a liferaft while watching my boat sink. I can only imagine the feelings Tapio would have gone through: not just the sense of – but also, perhaps, the sense of failure.
