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The Last Transatlantic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 October 2009

Michael Richey
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Abstract

On 15 July 1988 in position 39° 08′ N., 58° 43′ W., some 470 miles south-east of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Jester was abandoned and her skipper taken off by the M/V Nilam, a 60000-ton bulk carrier bound for New York.

The boat was engaged in the single-handed transatlantic race from Plymouth to Newport, Rhode Island. The race, which started on 5 June, was Jester's eighth and her fourteenth transatlantic passage. The incident, a knockdown, occurred some 40 days out.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Navigation , Volume 42 , Issue 2 , May 1989 , pp. 223 - 235
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 1989

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