ALGERIA: CONTESTANTS FROM SIX COUNTRIES TO COMPETE IN FIRST INTERNATIONAL TRANS-SAHARA SAND YACHT RACE

Record ID: 574501

  • Title: ALGERIA: CONTESTANTS FROM SIX COUNTRIES TO COMPETE IN FIRST INTERNATIONAL TRANS-SAHARA SAND YACHT RACE
  • Date: 12th February 1967
  • Summary: 1. LV COMPETITORS PREPARING SAND YACHTS 0.05 2. SV BRITISH COMPETITORS STEWART DIBDEN AND MICHAEL BENSON PREPARING 0.07 3. SV MAN ATTENDING TO YACHT 0.11 4. LV YACHT WITH SAIL UP 0.15 5. LV MEN TURNING YACHT ONTO SAND 0.19 6. CU PAN. MOTOR HORN 0.21 7. LV MEN PREPARING YACHT 0.25 8. SV MEN ATTENDING TO WHEELS 0.28 9. GV ACTIVITY IN YACHTS 0.31 10. CU MEN COMPETITORS TALKING 0.34 11. GV YACHTS 0.38 12. SV MEN TURNING YACHT ONTO WHEELS 0.42 13. CU TWO MEN TALKING AND LOOKING AT WHEEL 0.47 14. CU SIGNPOST 0.51 15. CU SIGN POST 'BECHAR' 0.51 16. LV MAN PUSHING YACHT 0.53 17. LV MEN PREPARING YACHTS 0.59 Initials TS/V/JH/PC SPORT: YACHT RACING Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 27th February 1967 12:00
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  • Location: COLOMB BECHAR, L ALGERIA
  • Country: Algeria
  • Reuters ID: LVA4YA533B46H7NSXRL11NZY37NV
  • Story Text: IN ALGERIA PREPARATIONS ARE NOW COMPLETE FOR THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL SAND YACHT RACE IN WHICH CONTESTANTS FROM SIX COUNTRIES WILL MAKE THE 1,560-MILE (2,500 KM) CROSSING OF THE SAHARA. THE RACE, SCHEDULED TO START TODAY (SUNDAY) HAS NOW BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL TOMORROW BECAUSE OF A SUDDEN DROP IN THE WIND.

    TWENTY-THREE MEN AND ONE WOMAN ARE TAKING PART IN THE RACE, FROM COLOMB BECHAR IN ALGERIA TO NOUAKCHOTT, THE CAPITAL OF MAURITANIA. THE CONTESTANTS COME FROM FRANCE, BRITAIN, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, HOLLAND, WEST GERMANY, AND DENMARK.

    DIFFICULT SURFACE CONDITIONS AND SAND STORMS ARE LIKELY TO TAKE ABOUT A FIFTY PER-CENT TOLL OF THE YACHTS, AND WHILE DURING THE DAY TIME, CONDITIONS WILL NOT BE TOO BAD, AT NIGHT FREEZING COLD WILL ADD TO THE YACHTSMEN'S DISCOMFORT. THE RACE IS EXPECTED TO TAKE ABOUT A MONTH.
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