Barcelona World Race - Virbac Paprec 3 past The Horn

7:46 PM Thu 3 Mar 2011 GMT

'Lo?ck Peyron and Jean-Pierre Dick at Cape Horn this morning - Barcelona World Race' Virbac Paprec 3

Barcelona World Race and at 1020hrs this Thursday morning Jean-Pierre Dick and Lo?ck Peyron on Virbac-Paprec 3 lead the BWR fleet past Cape Horn only four hours and 20 minutes ahead of Spain?s double Olympic medalists Iker Martinez and Xabi Fernandez. With just under 7000 miles to sail to the finish in Barcelona, the lead of Virbac-Paprec 3 was only 72 miles. Since their enforced 48 hours pit-stop in Wellington to replace essential mainsail batten-cars, Virbac-Paprec 3 crossed the remainder of the Pacific to Cape Horn in 15 days one hour and 35 minutes, their aggregate time since leaving the ...

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