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Article: THE RHYTHMS OF LIFE ABOARD A TALL SHIP ARE TOTALLY DIFFERENT F ROM THE ORDINARY ROUTINE OF SCHOOL, SAY YOUNG NORWEGIAN SAILOR S WHO WON THE RACE ACROSS THE ATLANTIC. FLOATING CLASSROOM.(Living)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- July 1, 1992
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Byline: Paul Grondahl Staff writer
After 3,500 miles and three weeks spent racing across the Atlantic Ocean against 150 of the world's most majestic windjammers - the largest field of tall ships ever assembled - the Norwegians, who led most of the way from Spain, were preparing to pop the champagne corks.
Just 20 miles of sea lay between Norway's Christian Radich and the sweet taste of victory at the finish line in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
"We were so close and all of a sudden we were becalmed and couldn't move at all," Gunnar Utgaard, first officer on the Christian Radich, was recalling last Friday morning aboard the tall ship docked at the South ...