Cruising World publishes the whale story

Hi Beethovens,

Cruising World is publishing an article about the XL wreck in their November issue. Reference available at http://www.cruisingworld.com/capable-cruising/voyaging/distress-call-from-xl-54987.html
Buy that issue and you'll find out if the whale's OK (since this is the first comment that someone posted on that page...)

You can click on a link on that page to hear the initial message that Nick (the skipper) left to the Pacific Cup communication manager. That was before we abandoned ship. It is the original message as recorded by the Pac Cup folks.

At the end of the article is a reference to BeatSarcoma, and a call to action. Remember that our Pac Cup initiative is a fund raiser for sarcoma, a rare form of cancer, which I nicely inherited. We are covering all the race expenses so all the money goes to sarcoma research.

This cancer is hard to detect, hard to diagnose and hard to treat. It also has a high relapse rate and affects a lot of children (20% of childhood cancers!) as well as adults. All of this is not simply due to the nature of the cancer but because research is WAY behind...as in years behind. This cancer so far gets less than 1% of all funds allocated to cancer research. So we can change that situation!

Visit www.beatsarcoma.org for more info.