snell@utzoo.UUCP (Richard Snell) (02/19/86)
The following is an AP news item, with accompanying photo, which appeared on
19 Feb 1986 in _The_Toronto_Star. Such fun.
The windsurfer appears to be little more than 1 metre wide, and perhaps
5 metres long. The sails appear to be about 5 metres high.
Frenchmen Alain Pichavant and Stephane Peyron arrive in Guadeloupe
after making the first east-west crossing of the Atlantic on a tandem
surfboard. The journey from Dakar, Senegal, took 24 days, 15 hours
and 20 minutes, covering 4,900 kilometres.
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Name: Richard Snell
Mail: Dept. Zoology, Univ. Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A1
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