And although the IrisPen's graphics mode lets you capture bit-map images, its narrow lens restricts it to a series of half-inch bands -- and you can't stitch a series of scans together.

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She also had to climb up the 80 foot mast on her boat, Pindar, in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, as well as hand-stitch her giant mainsail with 1, 500 stitches after it ripped in half.

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