Barcelona World Race - One last Atlantic gale before Gibraltar

7:29 PM Tue 29 Mar 2011 GMT

'Jaume Mumbru and Cali Sanmarti at Cape Horn - Barcelona World Race' ? We Are Water

Barcelona World Race leaders Jean-Pierre Dick and Loick Peyron passed under the 1000 miles to the finish mark, but with the boat slamming in the short seas, and the winds set to build, the French duo were in conservation mode, perhaps paying little heed to the fact that their lead to Mapfre increased to over 310 miles this afternoon while the Spanish duo Iker Martinez and Xabi Fernandez were slowed as they approached the Canary Islands, setting up to pass to the south of La Palma, but losing speed in the shifty, more unsettled breezes. Mapfre's average this afternoon had ...

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