Images Dated 1998

Sail-Aquitaine Innovations-Arrival

Yacht Aquitaine Innovations (L), skippered by Frenchman Yves Parlier, sails under the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco while being escorted by a San Francisco Fire Department fireboat after breaking the New York to San Francisco record in 57 days, three hours, 21 minutes and 45 seconds 15 March. The route went around Cape Horn in South America, the route once used by 19th-century Clipper ships. / AFP PHOTO / JOHN G. MABANGLO

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