Challenges
With some fascinating headings including "The Hot Fire of Competition", "Taming the Atlantic" and "Fast & Famous" amongst the 15 chapters within this book it is essential reading for any RIBster with any remote interest in challenging the seas or in the personality of those who do!

Plunge into this book to read about taking risks and being on the edge. With some 133 black and white and 32 colour photographs this book is most of all about passion. A love affair with the sea that started at eight years old and went on to rule every second of an active, daring and very unusual life. Hardship, hard work, hard play - every word lives the excitement of facing the kind of challenges most of us can only dream about.

Going to sea as a boy and coming back as a man. Braving fearsome storms to protect and save lives. Taking on the mighty ocean and taming it. Breaking just about every record there is on water and coming back for more.

Dag Pike's skills as a navigator are his biggest plus, luring him into the ultra-fast world of offshore powerboat racing. Carlo Bonomi, Fabio Buzzi, Daniel Scioli, he raced with many of the big names, his expertise helping to break records and win World Championships. He was navigator aboard Richard Branson's Virgin Atlantic Challenger for her trans-Atlantic speed record attempt when she sank just 140 miles short after hitting something in the water. One year later he was the navigator again when Virgin Atlantic Challenger II smashed the record held for more than thirty years.

Rescued nine times and himself a rescuer many times more, his favourite challenge has yet to be realised - navigating the fastest boat around the world.

Available September. Published by Bosun. ISBN: 978-0-9546932-7-5

Why not pre-order, £19.95 + £2.50 P&P to ensure you are one of the very first to read the story. Plus, mention HotRIBS and you will receive an autographed copy of this exciting book.

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June 2006