Windsurfers Cross Atlantic, east to west

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1 total messages Started by Richard Snell Wed, 19 Feb 1986 19:31

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Author: Richard Snell
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1986 19:31

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The following is an AP news item, with accompanying photo, which appeared on
19 Feb 1986 in _The_Toronto_Star.  Such fun.
The windsurfer appears to be little more than 1 metre wide, and perhaps
5 metres long.  The sails appear to be about 5 metres high.

Frenchmen Alain Pichavant and Stephane Peyron arrive in Guadeloupe
after making the first east-west crossing of the Atlantic on a tandem
surfboard.  The journey from Dakar, Senegal, took 24 days, 15 hours
and 20 minutes, covering 4,900 kilometres.

-- 
Name:   Richard Snell
Mail:   Dept. Zoology, Univ. Toronto
        Toronto, Ontario, Canada    M5S 1A1
UUCP:   {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!snell

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