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Blind sailor sets out on solo voyage across Atlantic
Jim Dickson 41, legally blind since age seven, departed Plymouth with Eye Opener, a 36-foot sloop, on a 2,800-mile Atlantic crossing planned to last about a month. He relies on a $12,000 talking computer and emergency systems, while filming a documentary and writing a book about the journey.
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