Word: newports
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...28th of that month that the above-mentioned stalwarts, along with eleven other skippers, frisked away into the whitecaps off Newport, R.I., in the first singlehanded round-the-world sailing race to begin and end in the U.S. At 7:11 a.m. on May 9, or 159 days 2 hr. 26 min. after the starting gun (not counting the weeks of layovers between legs), the first of the solo sailors came home from the sea. Only ten had remained in the race, battering their way through more than 27,000 nautical miles of doldrums and depressions, reefs, icebergs and storms...
...idled across the finish line the day after his 31st birthday. At the start of the race, Jeantot was unknown to the racing world, though he had made four single-handed Atlantic crossings. Yet on the first of the race's four legs, the 7,100-miles from Newport to Cape Town, he piled up a one-week, 1,500-mile lead over his nearest competitor. That was the way it went, around the world; across the southern reaches of the Indian Ocean to Sydney, Australia; through the roaring forties and raging fifties of the southern ocean to Cape...
...fastest noon-to-noon run (240 miles) and seven-day run (1,552 miles). In France, an instant national hero was born. Jeantot, Superstar; Jeantot, King of the Sea; Jean-tot, the Absolute Conqueror, toasted the French press, which sent 52 representatives to cover his victorious arrival in Newport...
...last boat is not expected home for a good two weeks. At a ceremony in Newport scheduled for May 28, BOC Group, the British-based industrial conglomerate that sponsored the race, will divide $50,000 between the winner of the small-boat class and Jeantot, the large-boat victor...
...muscular, 163-lb. athlete who has a black belt in judo, Jeantot walked off his floating home at Newport as jauntily as if he were returning from a stroll. Of the few bad times during the voyage, the worst, he said, came between Sydney and Cape Horn, when he had to go far south to pick up the prevailing westerly wind. For 13 days near 58° south latitude, he never saw the sun and at tunes could not even see the top of his mast. "Everything on board was wet and cold," he recalls, "and it was dangerous when...