Not for nothing are the southern oceans called the Big South. Pip Hare described the sheer scale of this lonely area beautifully in a video yesterday. “It is so remote. Behind me I am pointing to Antarctica. To my starboard I would end up 2,500 miles that way to Argentina, and this way, to my east the next bit of land I would hit is Australia and that, incredibly is 6,000 miles. It is beautiful, incredible. But when the cloud is over and it is windy and wet, your world shrinks in to be just the boat and you are dealing with the here and now, just dealing with the boat, a little pocket of activity trying to achieve one thing. And you lose that big perspective.’
