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    THE MENTAL GAME

    Nov 12, 2020 3 minutes

    ou can sail to the Equator faster than anyone ever has, only to crash to a stop when your boat hits something mid-ocean; or you can sail right around the world and miss the record in a voyage that barely gets a footnote in history. The Jules Verne is its own special type of torture. Jack Bouttell, who has been part of the campaign, knows as much as anyone how frustrating it can spent months on standby, in between sailing the globe without taking the record.

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