The guys are going to get itchy feet and want to take a shortcut through the strait . I'm quite happy to go either way . But if they leave it up to me , I'm going through the strait ' cause it's quicker . ” But Rodgers was persuasive .
Petersen describes his childhood in the colored townships of South Africa, sailing single-handed across the Atlantic, and preparing for the 1994 BOC Around the World race.