Setting out into the Channel at the Dover Strait in thick fog is a hair-raising prospect but organisers of the Calais Round Britain Race got the fleet of 11 Open 60s away this afternoon despite a real pea-souper. Sensibly, they dispensed with inshore legs, which would have been utterly invisible from shore anyway, and sent the crews straight down-Channel on a run.
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about 19 years ago
Thick fog blankets Round Britain start
Setting out into the Channel at the Dover Strait in thick fog is a hair-raising prospect but organisers of the Calais Round Britain Race got the fleet of 11 Open 60s away this afternoon despite a real pea-souper. Sensibly, they dispensed with inshore legs, which would have been utterly invisible fro
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