Shirley Robertson's Sailing Podcast

Series 4 - Ep17 - Pete Goss Part 1

Shirley Robertson's Sailing Podcast

Show Notes

Send us Fan Mail Tales from Sailing Folk Lore with British Adventurer Pete Goss This month, Shirley Robertson's Sailing Podcast talks to British offshore adventurer Pete Goss, an accomplished offshore sailor famed for executing one of the bravest solo ocean rescues of all time. Talking at his home in the south west corner of the UK, Robertson and Goss kick their discussion off with chat about his formative years, his time in the British Marines, and how, in the nineteen nineties, he f...

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