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New Zealand’s Peter Blake and Britain’s Robin Knox-Johnston will lead a bid to win the Jules Verne Challenge Trophy and $1 million by sailing around the world in less than 80 days, beginning next January from the English Channel.
The record for a nonstop circumnavigation under sail is 109 1/2 days, set by France’s Titouan Lamazou in a 59-foot monohull in 1989-90. Blake and Knox-Johnston will sail an 85-foot catamaran.
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