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At one point the Avontuur has to take evasive action to avoid a hurricane and sails as far north as Newfoundland - off the coast of Canada.

He claims the council stopped co-operating and went behind his back, and that their conduct has been "evasive, misleading and at times shocking".

Yet she remained typically evasive when asked if she planned to more tournaments later this year.

"I seemed weak and evasive. Worst of all, I sounded like I didn't have the courage to stand behind the logical conclusion of the self-identification system we had just legislated for," she writes.

It comes less than one week after a Delta regional flight from Minneapolis was forced to make a sudden evasive manoeuvre to avoid a US military bomber.