Barcelona World Race leaders enduring an upwind marathon

6:41 PM Thu 31 Mar 2011 GMT

'Central Lechera Asturiana leaving Wellington - Barcelona World Race' Mike Clare / DPPI / Barcelona World Race

Barcelona World Race day 87. On Monday January 3rd, Dick and Lo?ck Peyron lead the 14 boat fleet second edition of the Barcelona World Race out into the Atlantic on the blue hulled Virbac-Paprec 3. The duo passed out into the Atlantic not knowing what their first circumnavigation together would hold for them, their minds collectively and individually a churning mix of anticipation, focus, uncertainty and anticipation. Now the French duo will pass back through the Pillars of Hercules - the 426 meters Rock of Gibraltar to the north and Morocco's 851 metre high Jebel Musa to the south, the ...

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