There are a couple of notorious sailing passages around the world. We’ve known boats that claim the run between Fiji or Tonga and New Zealand is the toughest in the world. The short sail from the ABCs in the Caribbean to Columbia can be horrendous due to the katabatic winds pouring off the high mountains. We had high winds and rough seas here. Friends of ours almost lost someone overboard.

Paul Bennett inspects damage to his boat that occurred while sailing around South Africa.
The remaining ladder cover. The other one was torn off by boisterous seas off Africa.
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