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Ice bergs off the starboard
An interesting little article by our
water
and atmospheric
research
org.
www.niwa.cri.nz/pubs/mr/archive/2005-01-06-1
Not a good time if you are sailing a vessel in the Vendeeglobe and it is called Titanic.
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All the Vendee boats are now at, very near, or past Cape Horn but one of the boats did hit an iceberg and brake the pow sprit. The broken bow sprit
boat
was repaired on the South Island, he also had other problems. Michael
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