Barcelona World Race: At the gates of enlightenment
— 31 March 2011Across his two combined Barcelona World Races French skipper Jean Pierre Dick has only ever passed the magnificent Pillars of Hercules…
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Barcelona World Race: Sting at the tip of the south’s tail
— 24 March 2011Huddled in thermals, blearily rubbing his eyes with tiredness, Ludovic Aglaor, the co-skipper of Forum Maritim Catala today illustrated how rounding Cape Horn does not necessarily equate to hitting the home stretch in the Barcelona World Race…
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Barcelona World Race: Pointing North, Pacific Done
— 3 March 2011At 1020hrs this Thursday morning Jean-Pierre Dick and Loïck Peyron on Virbac-Paprec 3 lead the Barcelona World Race fleet past Cape Horn only four hours and 20 minutes ahead of Spain’s double Olympic medallists Iker Martinez and Xabi Fernandez.
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Barcelona World Race: Central Lechera Asturiana Break Their Mast in the Tasman and are heading for Wellington.
— 2 March 2011At between 1815hrs UTC this Tuesday evening the mast of Central Lechera Asturiana broke with half of the spar falling into the water. Co-skippers Juan Merediz and Fran Palacio are reported to be uninjured and have been successful in recovering the broken half of the spar, the genoa which went in the water and all […]
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Barcelona World Race: What’s Cooking for the Straits?
— 9 February 2011As Virbrac Paprec 3 crossed the longitude of Cape Leeuwin this morning at around 1010hrs UTC, the leading French pair were moving at more modest speeds seeing their record lead ebbing again…
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Barcelona World Race: Catch a falling star
— 19 January 2011Enjoying the lead of the Barcelona World Race since Friday afternoon, Estrella Damm duo Alex Pella (ESP) and Pepe Ribes (ESP) are set for a long night and long day of frustration as they try to find a way through over 250 miles of very unstable, asthmatic light winds.
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Barcelona World Race: does the Pacific highway takes an exit toll?
— 9 March 2011It is hard to judge whether the Pacific is extracting a particular toll from the peloton of the Barcelona World Race fleet, a tax at the gateway to deliverance into Atlantic, whether it is simply the accumulation of hard miles since the start, or recent problems among them are all purely circumstantial.
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Barcelona World Race: Here Today, Horn Tomorrow!
— 2 March 2011Cape Horn is the round the world racer’s ultimate milestone. It is the time that the bow is finally directed in a northerly direction, what feels like homewards.
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Barcelona World Race: One in, one out…
— 19 February 2011After two days on land, making key repairs to the rig and boat, Virbac-Paprec 3 is back on the racecourse and in pole position this afternoon. Jean-Pierre Dick and Loick Peyron (FRA) slipped their lines at exactly 1111hrs (CET) today, having completed the mandatory 48-hours on shore for their technical stopover…
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Barcelona World Race: The next big test
— 29 January 2011All things being equal Spain’s double Olympic champions Iker Martinez and Xabi Fernandez on MAPFRE should be the second of the Barcelona World Race fleet to pass the longitude of Cape of Good Hope late this evening or tomorrow morning…
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