Steve White - solo round the world the 'wrong way'

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2:20 AM Sat 11 Sep 2010 GMT

'Steve White - came late to sailing' .

Dee Caffari has done it, now Steve White is setting out to do it too. He's going to sail solo, round the world, non-stop and unassisted, AND the 'wrong way', AND break the current record. The 'wrong way'? It just means that the world's wind in the Southern Ocean, where one must venture to round the globe without stopping, are all westerlies, so the logical way to go is to run before the wind, travelling ever to the east. Those who either have masochistic tendencies, are bored with their past circumnavigations or who just have something to prove to themselves, ...

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by Nancy Knudsen

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