Bonnie Hancock
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It's gripping your paddle so tightly because if you don't, the paddle will just fly out of your hands and bashing into headwinds.
for 16, 18 hours a day.
And all I would get done in that time is 70 to 80 kilometers.
So I did half of the distance for twice the amount of energy.
I had bulging discs in my back by that stage.
I actually couldn't straighten my fingers by that stage.
So they were so swollen, I couldn't open bottle caps or fridge doors.
I had to get my crew to do that because I was in so much pain.
Physically, my body was falling apart.
Was this the closest you got to calling it off?
Absolutely.
Yeah.
I actually, we got halfway across the Gulf and I had to get bailed out.
I'd fallen out of my ski.
I was doing two kilometers an hour.
So I was going 30K an hour in the bite and I was going two kilometers an hour.
And the skipper called it.
He said, we've got to get out of here.
It's 30 knots.
There's stainless steel chains breaking on the boat.