Going overboard – Conrad Colman’s shocking secret One of THE stories of 2017 - Conrad Colman's candid description of his battle to get around the wor...

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this month after a string of champagne

launches cutscene we've gone rather coy

about their machines so we lift the lid

on the new America's Cup glass though

it's crunch time in Miami we head to the

Caribbean for a 600-mile classic whilst

we are quite a thin is still such an

appealing boat for a new breed of

failing prefer going overboard it's

every offshore play love nightmare Oh si

I bet it's talking

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Konrad Coleman's solo trip around the

world was much more than a yoga he told

everything compete in the world's

toughest supporting challenge the fond a

globe greatly 24,000 miles alone but

like many of the 29 Schism he had to

share a problem if you boys you a heaven

in their day

there's way out of this but

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man I really wish we had done just one

of the many wipeouts caused by repeated

auto pilot failure but in 110 days here

copes with plenty of other emergencies a

fire started below deck equipment has

broken above deck forcing him to climb

the mast on several occasions this is

the thing that I hate leading to periods

of real fear is terrifying so when the

33 year old New Zealand's across the

finish line aboard with battle-scarred

Amaka succeed he has achieved his dream

he had bucked the odds and added his

name's were lists of solo

circumnavigation a mix that is shorter

than for those of a team interested

he had also become the first Kiwi to

complete the bond a globe and the first

to do so without using any possible

man's trip have taken him perilously

close to the edge losing his mast 700

miles from the finish a jeopardize of

entire campaign in the final straight

he'd run out of food struggling to meet

water starvation was now a real

possibility in a race that had already

thrown a constant stream of obstacles in

they were definitely federal several

times that I thought that there was too

much that was impossible that I couldn't

finish and yet having that moment of

self-doubt was was what drove me to find

the energy to to make sure that that

wasn't like it was afraid to moving that

was the end of the race and while I've

lots of old days of sailing and one

really useful fail on which we go verbal

ad net allowed me to say not that I

haven't done all of this work I haven't

changed my life I haven't gone across

the Atlantic I haven't moved to France I

haven't learned French I haven't created

an entire new life I haven't cried at my

desk trying to find fortune I haven't

found true races on the world in

preparation for this moment to have it

fall apart right now but Coleman was to

come close not returning

what terrifying moment was not the bit

laughing that was the night that I fell

overboard

I've had problems with the mainsail I

had to take it down at night and 35

knots upon those approaches to take him

a second Reese when I had a problem with

the main I clambered up into the into

the lazy bag that that was holding them

that folds the mainsail and was sort of

hugging it into place to try and make

them to the mess that had been my once

proud men fell the lazy Jack's broke and

that let the booms clam down on the side

of the boat and I was riding the boom

like a horse and instantly what there

wasn't even time to sink and I had

fallen from the boom and I didn't have

the wherewithal to grab onto anything I

was in the water at night

my headlamp had fallen from my head

those functions duck

I was dragging through the water as if I

was charging wrong

plunged into a sea temperature of just 5

degrees Coleman was in one of the most

remote places on earth the southern

ocean

my leash was was attached to the boom

which was above my head and out of my

reach and the vote was likewise out of

my reach eventually with the rolling of

the boat and a wave came and pushed me

towards the part of the boat and I

grabbed onto a stanchion and pulled

myself up onto the side of the boat and

however then had a problem with my leash

that who once saved my life

just three instance beforehand was now

stopping me from getting on board and

getting into real safety and and so I

had a very perilous moments where in the

dark

I had to disconnect the harness hanging

onto just one stanchion they kind of go

and then finally climb into some hands

and safety on the boat now it's

terrifying that that's what gave

Michelle shot my my father was killed in

an accident on the boat and my first

racer on the world

I lost my crew member Sam good child

overboard and it took me a long time 30

minutes of searching and dead bait

Commission's to get them back during

which time he was able to just stay

alive and so it was really tough for me

to be on the receiving end of that to

find myself helping them in the water

yet the story he told at the time was

rather different there had been no

mention live near me pretty terrible

night I think the reader what a bet came

to connection for the month and the

thrift the sale and I managed to get

fell down but ladx brooch now I have a

mainsail that simple nothing at all I

didn't tell anybody about that why I

told one person I called my boat captain

China and because I had a very tangible

need to talk say this is what this

happened I was died I need to talk about

my mother's the widow of the sea and my

wife is already afraid of what I go

through every day and so I didn't see

the need to hedge their suffering

collectively it was something that I had

to just kind of keep bottles fold up

inside me that in turn reminded me as I

need to success on every single day and

not add too much electricity to the

daily lives of my loved ones

terrible to hear that

but to be fair when I don't care about

him for very long hours when you've got

a problem that's exactly where my mind

goes so you know I don't I don't exactly

need to know that it has happened to him

even if she hadn't I would have that

same thing in my head in addition to the

support of his wife and show crew Conrad

had another motivation to succeed

my younger brother committed suicide and

it just becomes a years ago and and I

thought I thought a lot about Andrew

during this race and not into much today

self as presence but just that ie and I

wanted to show what was the other edges

in the world an example of never giving

up because I I was heartbroken by his

position and and and by his circumstance

that led should had driven them to it

and yet and everybody has really dark

days and sometimes there are lots of

dark days lined up in a row and they can

really hard to deal with

why is it the worst day though it has

the best nonsense look at that the

opportunity to show that we're possible

is so much more than where we think and

and if that example can be useful for

for somebody and then that I'd be very

very touched and honored by that

Michelle and feel like my rated

participate had contributed to to

something more than 50 euro the

thousands that lined the harbour

entrance greet him will prove that the

trip had indeed be more than simply a

story of a young people

at this stage none including his wife

had any idea of how close he comes you

have the candid way in which he told his

story during his circumnavigation at

Maidan and sailing celebrity Conrad

Coleman's hadn't won the race but he had

survived every offshore trail of the

nightmare and to those that had

witnessed his dogged determination he

was an inspiration

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after the break what's under the skin of

the new America's Cup class boat Plus

why the fin is in but first the Miami

Super Series opened with a bang and a

huge crash say with us apart too

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