"We went to the right straight up from the Bahamas to Cape Hatteras, " said British navigator Stuart Quarrie.

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Paul Quarrie, senior specialist in the book department at Sotheby's, said it would be appropriate for the papers to go to Cambridge University.

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The BrunelSunergy crew decided that if they took a route closer to the coast "we were going to be dead in the water", Quarrie said.

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