1,700 miles behind the chief, the night time was much more painful for Louis Burton. For the skipper of Bureau Vallée, who suffered critical injury to his rigging, there was no miracle this time. Even MacGyver can’t struggle when mechanical destiny is relentless! After his structural repairs within the North Atlantic, the skilled sailor who has accomplished two round-the-world races, this time with no resolution, needed to announce, with a damaged coronary heart, his retirement. The sailor who was in sixteenth place on the time of his breakdown ought to take 36 hours to succeed in Cape City, close-hauled , in robust sea and wind circumstances. More here.
Title inspiration is, unsurprisingly, because of House of Pain.