Barcelona World Race skippers due to pass Cape Horn



6:29 PM Mon 7 Mar 2011 GMT
'Renault Z.E Sailing Team?s Pachi Rivero and To?o Piris - Barcelona World Race' Barcelona World Race ?
Barcelona World Race update. Renault Z.E Sailing Team?s Pachi Rivero and To?o Piris, were due to pass Cape Horn at around 1800hrs UTC and this evening there will be huge satisfaction to be passing in third place, a great interim for a team who only joined forces ten months ago. Although they have three Cape Horn passages between them, it was to be the first time that both of them will have passed on a non-stop circumnavigation. Rivero was last here with Bubi Sanso on Mutua Madrile?a in the first edition of the Barcelona World Race, while Piris? third passage ...


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