Route du Rhum - Groupe Bel forced out with keel head mechanism damage

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5:23 PM Sat 6 Nov 2010 GMT

'Groupe Bel - La Route du Rhum 2010' Gilles Martin Raget

Route du Rhum - Kito de Pavant (Groupe Bel) who was lying fifth in the IMOCA Open 60 class officially abandoned the Route du Rhum-La Banque Postale very early this Saturday morning after suffering a failure to a steel keel ram. De Pavant has employed the back-up system which fixes the keel to a central position and was reported to be heading immediately to the Azores and then onwards to his home base of Port Camargue where his technical team will be waiting to start a race to repair the boat on time for the 31st December start of the ...

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