‘The sickening sound of tearing wood as we were hit by the wave’
There may be a good time and place to lose a rig and a large chunk of deck, but 130 miles off the north-west corner of Spain in a full gale on a pitch black night is definitely not it. Still, it could have been worse…
Zest is a 36ft one-off design by Rob Humphreys, built of strip cedar epoxy and launched in 1992. I bought her in January 2013 with the intention of competing in that year’s Original Singlehanded Transatlantic Race, but was unable to complete all the necessary work in time for the start.
Instead, my partner Rupert Holmes and I
