Viking Heritage; Volvo celebrates its 75th anniversary with a sailing adventure.
AutoWeek, June, 2002 by Vaughn, Mark
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This fragmented satellite e-mail came from navigator Ross Field on the Team News Corp. racing sailboat 10 days out of Auckland, tearing along at up to 30 knots in front of howling storms, deep in the frozen heart of the Southern Ocean: ``I am bloody worried. This is dangerous... there are icebergs everywhere.
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There are growlers floating nowhere near the bergs. We hit a small berg whilst doing 21 knots. I was steering and all I felt was a loud crash on the hull... we were charging through hunks of ice. I had a man on lookout and directing me through the ice... We have had a ...
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