Posted on 03/05/2010 9:48:54 AM PST by Watersportinfo.com
On rounding Cape Horn at 1830 UTC this Thursday 4th March, Franck Cammas and his men have retained a lead of 175 miles over the reference time, which equates to 8 hours 55 minutes. However, the beginning of this final stage of the round the world will be complicated for the giant trimaran to negotiate, at least for the first few hours of this Atlantic ascent.
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from another article on that website: a superyacht near Dubai encountered a pirate mothership, which sent skiffs after it. The yacht contacted a “coalition warship”, which dispatched a helicopter to the scene. It says the helicopter “handled the situation”. I wonder if they allowed them to retreat, or did they blow them out of the water?
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