British solo skipper Ian Herbert-Jones, who was competing in the Golden Globe Race, was rescued on 11 April following an international search and rescue operation after his 35-footer was violently rolled and dismasted in a South Atlantic storm.
Herbert-Jones was approximately 900 miles north-east of the Falkland Islands when a severe low pressure system tracked over his position. Herbert-Jones was at the time the last competitor in the solo ‘retro’ Golden Globe Race, sailing in the ‘Chichester’ division after previously making a stop in Tierra del Fuego to repair his steering gear.
Before the storm hit, Golden Globe Race organisers contacted Herbert-Jones and advised him to sail south as fast as , his Tradewind 35 cutter,video interview with race organisers after making landfall in Cape Town.
