AS SEEN IN THE JULY 2014 ISSUE OF SAIL MAGAZINE
To superstitious sailors, the ocean holds many perils—some more
legendary than others. There’s the Kraken, that fearsome tentacled beast
that drags ships into the ocean’s depths, the ghost ship
Flying Dutchman,
the cursed Bermuda Triangle and, of course, the Gulf of Tehuantepec. In
the case of the Gulf of Tehuantepec, where “T-Pecker” winds ravage the
southernmost fringe of Mexico’s Pacific shore, the challenges are more
fact than fiction.
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