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    Coyote Lost at Sea Sampler iBookstore
    Coyote Lost at Sea Sampler iBookstore
    Coyote Lost at Sea Sampler iBookstore
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    Coyote Lost at Sea Sampler iBookstore

    By MCGRAW-HILL

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMcGraw-Hill Education
    Release dateMar 29, 2013
    ISBN9780071830195
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      Coyote Lost at Sea Sampler iBookstore - MCGRAW-HILL

      CHAPTER 13

      Second BOC Aboard Duracell,

      1990–91, Newport, Rhode Island,

      Around the World, and Back

      to Newport, Rhode Island

      "I find the solitude of this kind of racing the thing that’s most interesting, and that’s why I like it; it goes on and on and on."

      —MIKE

      MIKE WASN’T SURE HE WOULD RACE again, but after a couple of weeks he changed his mind and spent the next six months preparing Duracell for her second round-the-world race, the 1990–91 BOC.

      He didn’t talk much about this next race, perhaps because it was too much like something he had already done. He had been enthusiastic about the 1986–87 BOC because it was a personal first, and the 1989–90 Vendée was not only the first race of its kind, but the one hundred plus days of forced solitude in some of the most remote regions of the world also stretched him personally. People talk about the depression and loneliness of singlehanding, but if that were the case, why would I do it? A squash game is over in fifteen minutes. Then you have a letdown, and you have to do something else less enjoyable. I find the solitude of this kind of racing the thing that’s most interesting, and that’s why I like it; it goes on and on and on.

      For his first BOC, Mike had been on Airco, a 50-foot boat that put him in Class II. Since Duracell was 60 feet, he would now be racing in Class I against several skippers he already knew, either from the Vendée, the 1986–87 BOC, or both. (A third class of boats, for unsponsored boats between 40 and 50 feet, called the Corinthian Class, was created for the 1990–91 BOC.)

      As in prior races, the leading French boats were sponsored by national businesses: Philippe Jeantot was sponsored by a bank, Credit Agricole; Philippe Poupon, who had sailed Fleury Michon in the Vendée until she capsized in the Southern Ocean, returned on a newly refurbished Fleury Michon and backed by the well-known (in France) company of the same name. Groupe Sceta, sailed by Christophe Augin, was backed by a large human resources consulting firm in France for whom Augin’s boat was named. The costs of these boats and their full campaigns ranged from the equivalent of one to two million dollars. By comparison, Duracell had been built and outfitted for $700,000—however, she was already outdated compared to the newer French designs.

      Mike obviously loved singlehanded, around-the-world sailing, but few of his fellow countrymen even knew of its existence. And like many of his competitors, he didn’t like schmoozing, shaking hands, and wooing sponsors. He was a long way removed from the stereotypical American sailor; as an adult he never belonged to a yacht club, and he had little interest and even less respect for the cultural superiority assumed by most of the American sailing community. Mike, like many drawn to adventure sports, found the marketing of the race—and himself—the hardest part. It was even harder knowing that in other parts of the world the sport

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