Jim Close on the wheel of Bounder that he Skippered for a year - this is the1999 ARC where they won by a week and only had a sextant to use as GPS was off due to war in the Gulf

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Jim Close on the wheel of Bounder that he Skippered for a year - this is the1999 ARC where they won by a week and only had a sextant to use as GPS was off due to war in the Gulf

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Jim Close on the wheel of Bounder that he Skippered for a year - this is the1999 ARC where they won by a week and only had a sextant to use as GPS was off due to war in the Gulf photo copyright Dave Leverett taken at and featuring the IOR class

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