The proving ground
Subtitle: the inside story of the 1998 Sydney to Hobart race
By: G. Bruce Knecht
Publisher: AmazonEncore
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Las Vegas. NV
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781612181431
Subjects: Yacht racing; Storms; Sydney-Hobart Race (54th : 1998); Search and rescue operations; History
Description: An account of the 1998 Sydney to Hobart race describes how the annual sailing competition became one of the worst modern sailing disasters that left six sailors dead and a number of yachts destroyed.
Notes: "Includes new afterword"--Cover.

Originally published: Boston : Little, Brown, and Co., 2001.
Table of contents: title: Part I.; title: The Calm -- -- Part II.; title: East of Eden -- -- Part III.; title: The Black Cloud --  -- Part IV.; title: Adrift -- -- Part V.; title: Wake.