Pete Goss, MBE (born 22 December 1961) is a British yachtsman who has sailed more than 250,000 nautical miles (460,000 km).
[2] He was invested in the Legion d'Honneur for saving fellow sailor Raphaël Dinelli in the 1996 Vendée Globe solo around the world yacht race.
During a severe storm in the Southern Ocean, he turned his boat around and spent two days sailing into hurricane-force winds, finally finding Dinelli in a life-raft that had been dropped by an Australian Air Force plane shortly before the yacht had sunk.
[3] He trained the original set of amateur crews for the British Steel Challenge, and competed in the race on board Hoffbräu Lager, coming 3rd overall.
Four months later, he began a voyage from Cornwall to Australia on the boat, which has no modern electrical or navigation systems.