Route du Rhum - Gitana 11 fourth into Pointe-a-Pitre

8:08 PM Fri 12 Nov 2010 GMT

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Route du Rhum - Finishing early evening local time in Pointe-?-Pitre, greeted and cheered on by an impressive crowd massed around the Place de la Victoire, Yann Guichard took fourth place in this ninth Route du Rhum-La Banque Postale by traversing the Atlantic in 11d 11h 56' 38''. Exhausted by the repeated storms and an end to the race which he himself described as difficult, the skipper of Gitana 11 remained clear-headed and incisive right the way to the end, despite the highly uncooperative weather conditions. The final stage involving the circumnavigation of Guadeloupe was reminiscent of half of Yann ...

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by Kate Jennings