Barcelona World Race duo running on empty

4:11 AM Tue 5 Apr 2011 GMT

'Mapfre - Barcelona World Race' Barcelona World Race ?

With 50.9 miles to the finish of their Barcelona World Race, their first IMOCA Open 60 race as a duo, Spain's sailing icons Iker Martinez and Xabi Fernandez were making around 10kts on Mapfre and, at 1630hrs GMT/1830hrs UTC, had an ETA in Barcelona of between 1200hrs and 1500hrs local time. As with their predecessors, Virbac-Paprec 3 their progress after the Balearics has been slow and there is little wind forecast for close to the rhumb-line course for Tuesday. For certain the end probably cannot come quick enough for the double Olympic medallists. They have eaten the last of their ...

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