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Article: Geoff Pack
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- June 9, 1997
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Copyright informationCopyright 1997 The Independent - London. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Geoff Pack was one of the most influential figures in the world
of yacht cruising. A larger-than-life character, physically and
intellectually, he worked for the magazine Yachting Monthly in
various capacities for 19 years (as editor from 1992 until his
death) yet also managed to fit in three transatlantic cruises, the
last with his wife and three children under five.
He learned his sailing on the Sussex coast on his parents'
Iroquois catamaran, and cut his own cruising teeth as a teenager,
undertaking hair-raising passages in an elderly and heavy dinghy,
camping overnight under a canvas awning.
He first applied for a job on Yachting Monthly in 1978, aged 19,
but the then editor, Des ...
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