Evening Standard - London, June 1st, 1999
A 71-YEAR-OLD British sailor has today finally given up his epic round-the-world solo expedition and settled for being a landlubber after surviving his third shipwreck in as many years.
Eric Bennett, a retired physics lecturer from Bristol, could only watch in dismay from the harness of an Australian rescue helicopter as he watched his 30ft sloop Wiggy being smashed to pieces against a reef off Moreton Island near Brisbane on the Queensland coast.
Worried at already being labelled the world's latest challenger to Tony Bullimore's master of maritime disaster title, Mr Bennett, who started out...
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