La Solitaire du Figaro sailors head into second complex night at sea

4:33 PM Wed 28 Jul 2010 GMT

'Figaro sailors head into second complex night at sea' Courcoux-Marmara/Le Figaro

La Solitaire du Figaro saw 45 sailors set off from Le Havre in Northern Normandy yesterday on their first leg, 515 miles to the Gij?n, in Asturias on the Spanish Cantabrian coastline. Eric Peron (Skipper Macif 2009) grabbed Karine Fauconnier's (Eric Bompard Cachemir) early lead shortly after the last position poll and has continued over the past twenty four hours to maintain a narrow margin over his immediate pursuers, Erwan Tabarly (Nacarat), Adrien Hardy (Agir Recouvrement), Nicolas Lunven (Generali) Armel le Cl?ac'h (Brit Air). Sailors who opted for a more inshore course were rewarded with a lead this morning, however ...

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