There we were in the bowels of the boat when suddenly the floor beneath us began to buckle and bend from the strain of the loose keel.

I went below deck with the skipper Tim Magee to check out the fittings and what we found alarmed us enormously.

It was a truly frightening moment because we knew the potential danger we were in especially as we were out in the middle of the sea hundreds of miles from the nearest land.

Tim turned to me and gasped: 'Wow, did you see that?' I then unleashed a rather expressive swear word.

My original projections were for us to do about $2 million the first year and maybe $4 million the second. Toyota wasn't even on the horizon when we first started planning to come to San Antonio. That was another surprise.

We got it on, ... The fight itself was a tough fight for both of us. It was hard.