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- PEOPLE, Page 72The Long Way To Frisco
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- By Howard G. Chua-Eoan. Reported by David E. Thigpen
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- At 89 days eight hours, it seems overlong for a record.
- Still, no one has broken the 1854 sailing mark from New York
- City to San Francisco via wind-whipped Cape Horn, at the tip of
- South America. Early this month Anne Liardet of France expects
- to be on the way to a new record for the 14,000-mile voyage on
- her ship Finistere Bretagne, a 50-ft., 4.5-ton trimaran. "Some
- people go to the moon, others go around Cape Horn," said
- 27-year-old Liardet of the record, which is equivalent to almost
- five transatlantic trips. "My strategy is not to make the boat
- suffer too much," says Liardet, who will be accompanied by her
- fiance Joseph LeGuen. "It will depend on the wind. If we have
- strong head winds, it will be difficult. If we have 30-knot
- winds from the back, there won't be many problems for the boat.
- We will manage if we don't break." Why risk it? Says Liardet:
- "It is normal in France for a girl to sail around Cape Horn to
- break a record."
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