Barcelona World Race has a simple equation in the trade winds

2:30 PM Sun 9 Jan 2011 GMT

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Barcelona World Race leaders' maxim is 'invest in the west, gain to the south' as they enjoy brisk downwind trade wind sailing some 390 miles out to the east of the Mauritanian coast. Yesterday evening it was the turn of Foncia to be on the more westerly gybe, for around 80 miles or the equivalent of about 5 hours sailing time. During that time Virbac-Paprec 3 was tracking fast on the ?making? gybe, that which takes them south quicker towards the next theoretical waypoint. And so as they zig zag, gybing down the NE?ly trade winds, it is Jean-Pierre Dick ...

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