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Fazisi : the joint venture / Skip Novak.

By: Novak, Skip, 1952-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Sidgwick & Jackson, 1990Description: xvi, 207 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0283060530.Subject(s): Fazisi (Yacht) | Whitbread Round the World RaceDDC classification: 797.14
Contents:
The enemy has landed -- Trying to be a patriot -- The defection -- Shuttle diplomacy -- Strangers in a strange land -- Send lawyers, guns and money -- Leg one-sailing as an art and science -- One man's solution -- Leg two-war and peace -- Leg three-great expectations -- 'Let's put the wind in their sails' -- Leg four-Cape Horn to Port -- In search of the promised land.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Barcode
General lending MTU National Maritime College of Ireland Library Lending 797.14 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00109541
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This is the extraordinary story of Fazisi, a Russian boat of revolutionary design entered in the 1989/90 Whitbread Round the World Yacht Race. The American author tells how he became involved with the Fazisi, how his Russian co-skipper mysteriously committed suicide, how the boat was almost lost in a storm in the Southern Ocean and how, having arrived safely at Freemantle, Novak and his crew were told that Pepsi had withdrawn their sponsorship because of bad press in the USA. The book aims to offer a dramatic account of how the Glasnost boat managed to complete the toughest ocean race in the world.

Includes index.

The enemy has landed -- Trying to be a patriot -- The defection -- Shuttle diplomacy -- Strangers in a strange land -- Send lawyers, guns and money -- Leg one-sailing as an art and science -- One man's solution -- Leg two-war and peace -- Leg three-great expectations -- 'Let's put the wind in their sails' -- Leg four-Cape Horn to Port -- In search of the promised land.