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Diary Australia

Bermuda diary

10 June 2017

9:00 AM

10 June 2017

9:00 AM

Want to stop the world and get off? Try spending some time on a yacht with extremely limited communications racing through the Bermuda Triangle. Tranquillity guaranteed. Stepping off is another matter, however, with a blizzard of news updates assured to infuriate as information systems return to normal.

I was fortunate to sail aboard the 68-foot yacht El Oro in the inaugural Antigua-Bermuda (the A-B) race with an international but hardly multicultural crew of Poms, a Kiwi, a Frog, a Swede, Aussies and a St Lucian.

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