Near Death on the High SeasBy: Series: Vintage Departures The wind was blowing at hurricane strength sixty five knots and over and increasing in the gusts to eighty knots. His boat was surfing on waves as high as a sixty foot, six storey building. . . Each wave that struck choked and froze him, the icy water working its way down inside his survival suit. from Close to the Wind by Pete Goss In Near Death on the High Seas, Cecil Kuhne collects some of the most terrifying and