After executing a dawn rescue which took four attempts to pluck British solo sailor Alex Thomson to safety aboard his yacht, Mike Golding's 60ft Ecover yesterday was itself dismasted. After abandoning to a watery grave Thomson's 60ft Hugo Boss, the cruel blow of fate left both having to clear up the mess from a double mast break and set off, under jury rig, for Cape Town, 1,000 miles away.
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