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After our first landfall we bore away south, and came eastabout to Cape Palmas, where you could see the palm trees that gave it its name down by the water's edge, and so along the Ivory Coast and Gold Coast past Three Points to Whydah, where we put into the open roads.
Flash For Freedom Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1971
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After our first landfall we bore away south, and came eastabout to Cape Palmas, where you could see the palm trees that gave it its name down by the water's edge, and so along the Ivory Coast and Gold Coast past Three Points to Whydah, where we put into the open roads.
Flash For Freedom Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1971
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As I scrambled aboard BMW Oracle from the tow boat before the start the mood was quiet and relaxed as the sailing team seemed to be anticipating a fairly benign eastabout race round the island following the same course sailed in 1851 to establish the
YBW News 2010
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Zac sailing a 36-foot sloop left California last June heading eastabout.
YBW News 2009
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But she recognises that the much faster downwind route can be a lot more threatening than the upwind way, eastabout.
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Odyssey departs Monday January 9 2012 • Aurora, 98-night westabout full world circumnavigation departs Wednesday January 4 2012 • Oriana, 97-night eastabout full world circumnavigation departs Thursday January 5 2012
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