Barcelona World Race finish draws closer

6:39 PM Wed 30 Mar 2011 GMT

'Iker Martinez onboard Mapfre - Barcelona World Race' ? Mar?a Mui?a

Barcelona World Race Day 89. The closing proximity to the final line means that the release after 89 days of racing is weighing heavily on the minds of many of the skippers now nearing the home strait. For Jean-Pierre Dick and Loick Peyron, ETA Gibraltar around midnight Thursday, theirs has been a day of precision maneuvers off the Moroccan coast, getting to within 800 meters of the beach at one point early this morning. But it still seems like it will be at least offshore of Murcia before they may have some relief from their interminable upwind passage since the ...

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