(7 Jan 2007)
1. Wide of helicopter landing
2. Mid of pilot opening door to passengers and sailor Ken Barnes being greeted by Chilean Navy officers
3. Wide of Ken Barnes walking towards hangar accompanied by Chilean Navy officers
4. Set up news conference
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Ken Barnes, American sailor:
(Reporter - Ken, how are you doing?)
"Very well. Very well. Under the circumstances things could have been worse."
6. Cutaway assembled media at news conference
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Ken Barnes, American sailor:
(Reporter - Would you do it again?)
"Oh yeah, absolutely."
8. Wide of conference
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Ken Barnes, American sailor:
"When the boat rolled 360 degrees, that happened really fast. It happened so fast that, you know I lost both masts, I lost the steering wheel collapsed, the dodger collapsed. The radar arch and my two wind generators went."
10. Barnes walks in to ambulance, ambulance drives away
STORYLINE:
An American sailor whose solo round-the-world journey was frustrated by a yacht-destroying storm landed in Chile on Sunday, saying he was "doing very well" and that he didn't regret making the attempt.
Looking relaxed and calm, Ken Barnes said he didn't spend much time thinking about his situation when a storm left him adrift for three days more than 800 kilometres (500 miles) from the Chilean coast, west of the Straits of Magellan.
Barnes was brought to Punta Arenas by aircraft after he was rescued on Friday by the fishing trawler Pesca Polar 1, backed by Chilean navy aircraft.
He said his immediate plan was to fly back home and see his family.
The 47-year old, from Newport Beach, California, told reporters in Chile's southernmost city that he didn't regret trying to become the first solo sailor to circumnavigate the world nonstop from the US West Coast.
But he said that if one of his daughters thought of doing the same thing, he'd advise her against it.
He said he was recovering well from a wound suffered when the storm flipped his 44-foot (13-metre) ketch, Privateer.
Still, Chilean Navy Captain Ivan Valenzuela, who accompanied Barnes at his news conference at the local airport, said he would be taken to a local military hospital for a thorough check-up.
US Embassy officials who travelled from Santiago were to arrange details for Barnes' trip back to California, probably as early as Monday.
Barnes said things happened very fast when the storm struck on Tuesday, making the ketch "roll 360 degrees."
"When the boat rolled 360 degrees, that happened really fast. It happened so fast that, you know I lost both masts, I lost the steering wheel collapsed, the dodger collapsed. The radar arch and my two wind generators went," he told the news conference.
Barnes reported his emergency Tuesday to his fiancee Cathy Chambers in California with his still-working satellite phone and sent a distress signal that was picked by the US Coast Guard, which contacted the Chilean Navy.
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