Sunderland and US Coast Guard drop Bermuda Race claims

10:21 PM Sun 11 Jul 2010 GMT

'Abby Sunderland aboard Wild Eyes, her claims about the Newport Bermuda race have been shown to be erroneous.'

Abby Sunderland's father and the U.S. Coast Guard have retracted statements that a boat was lost in the 2010 Bermuda Race. 'We take Laurence Sunderland's charge very seriously because we take safety extremely seriously,' says Race Chairman Bjorn Johnson. When the young singlehanded ocean sailor Abby Sunderland and her father, Laurence, and brother Zac appeared on NBC's 'Today' show on June 30, 2010, host Meredith Vieira asked Laurence Sunderland to comment on the extensive critical press coverage of his daughter's recent rescue from her dismasted boat in the Indian Ocean. Sunderland said that she had been singled out. 'I mean, ...

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