thought earl might like this one...
since he's a seafaring kind of guy
Hours after breaking the 100-year-old race record for crossing the Atlantic, the helmsman Mike Sanderson could afford to reflect on the 9 days, 15 hours, 55 minutes and 23 seconds he had spent at sea aboard Mari-Cha IV, one of the world's fastest monohulls.
"This is such a historic record, a historic route, and it's always a great achievement to sail any yacht across the Atlantic," Sanderson said of Mari-Cha's arrival at 10:05:23 a.m. yesterday off Lizard Point, near Cornwall, England, the finish line for the 2005 Rolex Trans-Atlantic Challenge.
Sanderson, a veteran of eight trans-Atlantic crossings, called this trip "10 times harder for me."
Mari-Cha IV, the 140-foot schooner owned by the duty-free shopping magnate Robert Miller, eclipsed the 1905 record of the three-masted schooner Atlantic by 2 days 12 hours 5 minutes and 56 seconds.
Hours after breaking the 100-year-old race record for crossing the Atlantic, the helmsman Mike Sanderson could afford to reflect on the 9 days, 15 hours, 55 minutes and 23 seconds he had spent at sea aboard Mari-Cha IV, one of the world's fastest monohulls.
"This is such a historic record, a historic route, and it's always a great achievement to sail any yacht across the Atlantic," Sanderson said of Mari-Cha's arrival at 10:05:23 a.m. yesterday off Lizard Point, near Cornwall, England, the finish line for the 2005 Rolex Trans-Atlantic Challenge.
Sanderson, a veteran of eight trans-Atlantic crossings, called this trip "10 times harder for me."
Mari-Cha IV, the 140-foot schooner owned by the duty-free shopping magnate Robert Miller, eclipsed the 1905 record of the three-masted schooner Atlantic by 2 days 12 hours 5 minutes and 56 seconds.
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