11.   Entry-level cars in high-tech garb can seem as out of place as a computerized rowboat in a yacht race.

12.   Jean Luc Van den Heede of France moved into second place Wednesday in the BOC round-the-world yacht race.

13.   Like competitors in a yacht race, balloon engineers and designers constantly devise small improvements to give them an edge.

14.   Mike Plant, a top American competitive sailor, was lost at sea on his way to a round-the-world yacht race out of France.

15.   Restoration is taken seriously in Europe, where rules in the classic yacht races penalize any variance from original design and materials.

16.   Some of the trips, such as an excursion to see yacht races near San Diego, did not involve state funds.

17.   The French solo sailor Jean Luc Van den Heede went aground late Thursday in the BOC yacht race around the world.

18.   The new commodore immediately established three challenge cups for yacht races.

19.   The start of a yacht race, regardless of the repetition of the act, is a tense, testing proposition where bad things are almost certain to occur.

20.   They too had foundered as they sailed in the Vendee Globe Challenge, a solo nonstop round-the-world yacht race.