What is it like to sail in hurricane force winds in the middle of an ocean?
Most sailors may hope they never find out, but there was little choice for the crews of the current Clipper Race when they met an intense low pressure in mid-April while racing across the North Pacific from Qingdao to Seattle, bringing 70-80 knot winds and 14m waves – and they seemed to relish it.
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