Barcelona World Race Gaes girls 'so close yet so far' from finish line

11:11 AM Tue 12 Apr 2011 GMT

'GAES - Barcelona World Race 2011' Barcelona World Race ?

Barcelona World Race duo Dee Caffari and Anna Corbella are currently becalmed at the Balearics waiting for a hint of a breeze. They may have been blessed by downwind conditions for their return into the Mediterranean but they spent most of last night floating rather than sailing judging by their overnight average of just 2.1kts. At 0400hrs UTC the girls were making just 1.8kts with 160 miles to go. That puts them just north of the latitude of Ibiza, some 16 miles NE of Denia on the Spanish mainland. Dee Caffari wrote this morning: 'So close yet so far. This ...

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