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Tracey Edwards announces 2003 attempt on Jules Verne sailing record

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From: AP Worldstream
Date: 20020225
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Dateline: LONDON Tracey Edwards' first attempt to win the round-the-world Jules Verne yacht race ended in rough seas off the coast of South America four years ago.

But the yachtswoman is so confident that she and her crew can take the title in 2003, she has remortgaged her house to pay for a new boat and on Monday launched a campaign to find sponsors.

Edwards, 39, needs some 5 million pounds (dlrs 7 million) to finance the attempt with an all-female crew on the 110 foot (33 meter) maxi- catamaran Maiden II.

Twelve of her original crew from the first attempt in 1998 would ...

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