Barcelona World Race - Mapfre in the fight

8:14 PM Thu 10 Feb 2011 GMT

'Iker Martinez after fixing the daggerboard inside the boat - Barcelona World Race' MAPFRE

Barcelona World Race. Double Olympic medalists Iker Martinez and Xabi Fernandez are world renowned as 49er and Volvo round the world sailors but it is their new found boat-building skills which have helped them hang on to second place in the Barcelona World Race after an epic battle to rebuild as much of a snapped daggerboard as they could. The Mapfre team revealed this morning that Martinez and Fernandez had hit something and lost 1.5 meters off their port dagger board five days ago which goes some way to explaining their recent drop in speeds. After cannibalizing foam from the ...

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