Stomach-churning footage of 60ft replica in Irish Sea gale
The Sea Stallion, a replica of a Viking warship excavated in the 1960s, left Dublin earlier this year and has now arrived in its home of Roskilde, Denmark. This footage was taken on its first day out of Ireland as she sailed straight into a gale. The exhausted crew made an unscheduled stopover in Torquay to recover from the experience…
Did you miss our last video? It shows the rescue of Nick Barham from his stricken trimaran in a mid-atlantic storm. You can read about it in September’s YM, on sale now.
And while Qingdao was mainly a wind-less venue for the sailing olympics, this amazing compilation of footage from olympic regattas from the last few years shows that it doesn’t always go so smoothly…