Barcelona World Race slow progress for Virbac-Paprec 3

7:47 PM Sat 2 Apr 2011 GMT

'Lo?ck Peyron in the Mediterranean calm - Barcelona World Race 2011' Virbac Paprec 3

Barcelona World Race skippers aboard Virbac-Paprec 3 were becalmed off Cartagena this afternoon. Jean-Pierre Dick and Lo?ck Peyron may be on track to win the second edition of the Barcelona World Race but the French duo were experiencing the other extreme of the Mediterranean in Spring. Only hours after slamming upwind through the Straits of Gibraltar and the Alboran Sea in a combination of sea and wind conditions which were considered by the skippers, and - from a distance - the co-designer of the successful Imoca Open 60 - as potentially boat damaging. 'I have to say I was a ...

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