Word: kerguelen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though she held a remarkable five-day lead after the first leg of the Around Alone in 1994, Autissier was lucky just to survive that race. Not long after setting out from Cape Town, she lost a mast to heavy seas and limped to the remote Kerguelen Islands, where she had arranged for a new mast. But about 1,000 miles south of Australia, in the southern reaches of the Indian Ocean, her boat was overcome by a monumental wave and rolled a full 360[degrees]. Its rigging and even a chunk of its deck were stripped off. Had Autissier...
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