Mcßride nearing finish
NZPA staff correspondent Washington The lone sailor, Dick McBride, the last skipper still in the single-handed round the world race., is now some 1300 miles from the finishing line at Newport, Rhode Island. Organisers expect him to arrive between June 5 and June 10. The winner was Philippe Jeantot, of France, in Credit Agricole, who broke records all along the way to finish in an elapsed time of 159 days, 2hrs and 26min, 10
davs faster than the previous fastest circumnavigation (by a trimaran) and 28% days faster than the previous best time by a monohull. Seventeen boats started, two sank, one was wrecked on an Australian island, four E" j out and Dick Mcwas marooned for a month in the Falklands after City of Dunedin ran aground. Mcßride’s log at his arrival in Rio de Janeiro, describes his 13-metre steel hulled schooner as battered and severely dented.
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