But he was forced to abandon his plan to sail across the North Sea after authorities raised safety issues.
Getting there by boat also involves a challenging sail across the Southern Ocean, from bases like Hobart, Australia, and isolated Punta Arenas, Chile.
Then they said the rules favored lightweight American boats because the Brits had to sail across the Atlantic instead of arriving aboard a larger ship.
Next they hop on a traditional junk for a sail across Halong Bay, whose waters teem with prawns, oysters, squid and snapper that are staples of the local cuisine.
And the New York Yacht Club was accused in its early days of deliberately holding the race in the shallow waters off Manhattan so that British challengers, which had to be seaworthy enough to sail across the Atlantic, were at a disadvantage.
The key was not to try to dig a Suez-type of canal, a great sea-level trench from ocean to ocean, but to create a lock-and-lake canal, where the ships are lifted up by a series of locks to a man-made lake, and then they sail across that lake, and then they are set back down on the other side by another series of locks.
Current plans call for the probe to unfurl a solar sail 400 metres across shortly after launch.
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Keeping in mind the boat's ability to sail in waters across the globe, security has also been made a priority, the manufacturers say.
Both Al Busaidi and Al Hasni are part of the "Oman Sail" project, which aims to encourage people across Omani society to take up the sport.
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Over the summer at least 20, 000 migrants from across Africa use this route into Europe, all setting sail from the same secretive North African country ?
The man overseeing this sea change is Michel Bonnefous, a school chum of Bertarelli's who still climbs mountains with the billionaire and skims across Lake Geneva on his powerful 12-meter catamaran ("It's a mountain of sail, " he says, with a touch of awe).
The man overseeing this sea change is Michel Bonnefous, a school chum of Bertarelli's who still climbs mountains with the billionaire and skims across Lake Geneva on his powerful 40-foot catamaran ("It's a mountain of sail, " he says, with a touch of awe).
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