Ian Thomson circumnavigating Oz - Day 7, A very 'interesting' morning

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9:59 PM Tue 11 May 2010 GMT

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'In a time period of three hours all before 6am this morning, I had to deal with a spinnaker wrapped around the forestay, a jammed tiller and a broken drive unit. Lets just say this morning has been interesting.' It is day seven into Ian Thomson's solo sailing world record attempt. Save Our Seas Ocean Racing departed Airlie Beach on the fifth of May at 10:30:20 in an effort to break the world record for sailing non-stop solo around Australia. Ian's mission is about raising awareness of what the damage plastic bags do to our environment. He aims is to ...

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