French barrel sailor crosses Atlantic, arrives in Martinique
By DW
11 May 2019 |
9:24 am
A 72-year-old French man has bobbed his way across the Atlantic in a bright orange barrel. Now he wants to cross the Pacific, also in a barrel.
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