Sailing Solo Alone. This true story has three main characters - Some guy in a boat; an 18ft yacht called Solo and the Sea - a rather bad tempered sea. The budding sailor, buys this yacht, takes it for a spin up and down the river a couple of times, raises the sails once or twice, swabs the decks and reads a manual or two. Then, before he knew it, our hero (for want of a better word) is in the middle of the North Sea. It's October, it's extremely windy, it's the dead of night and more than that, he's out there alone. The Sea has one attempt at killing him. The boat somehow stays upright, more...