Velux 5 Oceans - Counting down to ocean sprint to Charleston USA

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2:17 PM Fri 18 Mar 2011 GMT

'Chris Stanmore-Major&rsquo;s Spartan - Velux 5 Oceans' Ainhoa Sanchez

Velux 5 Oceans ? For ocean sprint four tactics has been deemed the name of the game. This leg of the race is a 5,700-mile slog north from Punta del Este in Uruguay to Charleston on the east coast of the United States of America. At almost the same time as the fleet leaves Punta del Este on March 27 the skippers will face their first challenge of ocean sprint four ? the St Helena High. ? A huge, continually morphing area of high pressure, the St Helena High is a very difficult beast to get past. It drifts across ...

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