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Barcelona World Race - Key repairs in New Zealand

5:28 PM Wed 16 Feb 2011 GMT

'Lo?ck Peyron and Jean-Pierre Dick in Wellington, New Zealand - Barcelona World Race' ? Chris Cameron / DPPI / Barcelona World Race

Barcelona World Race update. Virbac-Paprec 3, long-term leaders in the Barcelona World Race, are currently in dock in Wellington after yesterday evening?s surprise announcement that they would be stopping during the Cook Strait passage of the race to make key repairs. Jean-Pierre Dickand Loick Peyron (FRA) reported their plans for the stopover to Race Director Denis Horeau yesterday evening after breaking two mainsail battens during their approach to New Zealand. Shortly after arriving alongside the pontoons of Chaffers marina this morning, Jean-Pierre Dick explained how they arrived at the decision: 'We would have had to finish the whole half of ...

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