Fifth yacht arrives
: PA Auckland I Disque D’or vesterday became 1 - I the fifth yacht to arive in Auck-i iland after completing the second, I leg of the Whitbread round the. I world race but her skipper, : Pierre Fehlmann, can be grateful I for a chance in a thousand I rescue in the mid-Atlantic for i being alive j Disque D’Or is a Swann design 21m ketch which carries a icrew of 12. “It fs a lot different I sailing alone, when there is not I the same responsibility.” said iFehlmann. “When you sail alone, you can die alone without hav|ing to think of others.” I For the second leg. Disque |D’Or has the third best corrected I elapsed time so far
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