Word: pampeiro
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...have made the 1,200-mile thrash from Argentina to Brazil are convinced that the triennial Buenos Aires-Rio race is the most infuriating test of men and boats yet devised. The prevailing northeasterly head winds often hit 40 knots or more. Complicating matters is the mast-snapping pampeiro, a westerly-land wind that frequently howls off the pampas at even greater force-only to die in a sudden, glassy calm. The Brazilian Curfent-the backwash of the Gulf Stream-is supposed to flow southward at two or three knots. But it weaves like a snake and sometimes dies like...
Riding the favorable pampeiro out toward Punta del Este, Stormvogel quickly sailed into the lead. Within a day, all her competitors were hull down on the horizon. Ondine had disappeared entirely. "We kept getting position reports on the other ships by radio-all the ships but Ondine, that is," said Stormvogel's Helmsman John Miles. "We thought obviously that she must be so far astern we just couldn't pick...
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