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Fedor On Code Red Iceberg Alert
Day 60: Fedor Konyukhov, the Russian solo yachtsman trailblazing a record circumnavigation around the Antarctica Cup Racetrack is calling for ‘water…no Ice’ today after learning of icebergs as high as 45S that are threatening his route across the South Atlantic.

C-CORE, the Canadian iceberg-tracking agency, can detect bergs as small as 100m in size and has warned of one at 45S 8W, the same latitude that Fedor is sailing along. The problem for Konyukhov is the millions of bergy bits and growlers that will have broken off these mega icebergs and drifted further north, which neither the satellites nor the radar on Fedor’s 85ft yacht Trading Network Alye Parusa’ can pick up.

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Gitana 13 to Attack the North Pacific Crossing
The maxi-catamaran’s 2008 record campaign in the colours of the LCF Rothschild group continues. Just weeks after its victorious finish in San Francisco, where it racked up a new reference time from the Route de l’Or (New York - San Francisco via Cape Horn) in 43 days 3 minutes and 18 seconds (a time approved by the WSSRC), the crew of Gitana 13 will take to the seas again. Lionel Lemonchois and his men will be attacking the North Pacific crossing record between San Francisco and Yokohama; a record which today belongs to French sailor Olivier de Kersauson and his crew aboard a 34 metre trimaran Geronimo. The crew of Gitana 13 will have to better the reference time of 14 days 22 hours 40 minutes and 41 seconds to be able to add a new record to their conquests.

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Life Raft & Survival Equipment - Serious About Safety - Serious About Savings
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