Barcelona World Race challenge for Mapfre

6:14 PM Tue 15 Mar 2011 GMT

'Dominique Wavre onboard Mirabaud after setting up a jury rig - Barcelona World Race' Mirabaud

Barcelona World Race leaders Jean-Pierre Dick and Lo?ck Peyron, hold a 465 mile lead over Mapfre. This amounts to more than ten percent of the remaining 3387 miles. The time to really enjoy the downwind and reaching sailing may present measures of physical respite, but it is primarily the cerebral functions which are on test for the racers in the South Atlantic. Dick, in his night e-mail, was full of the simple pleasures of sailing fast in warm waters and good trade winds, but the Doldrums ahead are complex and difficult to really discern what is going on with them. ...

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