Dean's Diary: Extreme 40's in Turkey - Dean Barker reports for Nexus

11:12 AM Thu 26 May 2011 GMT
Dean Barker, Emirates Team NZ skipper and Director of Kiwi Yachting Consultants Nexus AB , reports from Turkey on the first day of the Extreme40 series, in which he is helming Emirates Team NZ . Day 1 in Istanbul Hi We are in Istanbul, Turkey for the third round of the Extreme Sailing Series. First time for me in Turkey so another new experience which is always pretty cool. We arrived here Monday night, and with the containers being very late arriving, didn't get our hands on the boat until Tuesday morning. It was a full scramble to get the boat assembled and in the ...

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