Global Ocean Race teams mobilise in Europe

9:09 PM Mon 25 Apr 2011 GMT

'Sunset on board 40 Degrees during the GOR qualifying passage - Global Ocean Race' Hannah Jenner and Anna-Maria Renken

Global Ocean Race and with five months remaining until the start of the double-handed, Class40 GOR 2011-12 on September 25th in Palma, Mallorca, the teams are increasing activity dramatically. Qualifying passages are being completed, 180 degree inversion tests occur on a weekly basis, new and existing Class40's are being re launched and crew members and their boats are heading to Europe for the pre-race, build-up period. Following Lionel Regnier and Pierre-Yves Cavan's recent 180? test and the inversion tests undertaken last year by GOR entries Jacques Fournier and Jean-Edouard Criquioche on their new Pogo 40S? Groupe Picoty and the Auckland ...

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