This Guardian article was worth reading – not because we ever plan to do trans-ocean passages, but because it illustrates how easily an overstretched, overtired crew can start making serious mistakes. That can happen on a simple cross-channel passage, let alone the Southern Ocean.
PS She called it the River Solent – don’t think she’s a south-coast sailor! They changed it in later editions.
tide by tide 
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