Global Ocean Race 2011-12 skipper Regnier completes inversion test

7:54 AM Wed 20 Apr 2011 GMT

'Lionel Regnier completes the GOR inversion test with his new Akilaria RC2' MC-TEC

Global Ocean Race 2011-12 (GOR) starts in Mallorca, Spain and stops in Cape Town, South Africa; Wellington, New Zealand; Punta del Este, Uruguay and Charleston, USA before finishing back in Mallorca, a total of approximately 30,000 nautical miles. Skippers, Lionel Regnier and Pierre-Yves Cavan, successfully completed the GOR's mandatory 180? inversion test over the weekend on board their new Class40 Akilaria RC2 at the MC-TEC facility in Tunisia. Regnier and Cavan are the third GOR team to undertake the vital safety procedure following inversion tests undertaken last year by GOR entries Jacques Fournier and Jean-Edouard Criquioche on their new Pogo ...

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by Oliver Dewar