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Name: The proving ground
Author: G. Bruce Knecht

An account of the 1998 Sydney to Hobart race describes how the annual sailing competition became one of the worst modern sailing disasters that left six sailors dead and a number of yachts destroyed.

First publish date: 2001

Authors: G. Bruce Knecht

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