Velux 5 Oceans clock ticks down to to Charleston race start



6:18 PM Tue 22 Mar 2011 GMT
'The Velux 5 Oceans fleet in Punta del Este' Ainhoa Sanchez
Velux 5 Oceans - With less than a week to go until the 5,700-mile sprint to Charleston in the US, excitement and tension is starting to mount in the Uruguayan port of Punta del Este. At 1:00 p.m. local time (1600 UTC) on Sunday the Velux 5 Oceans? four solo skippers will blast out of Punta del Este Bay for the penultimate sprint of the 30,000-mile race. After an incredibly close sprint three, which saw Zbigniew ?Gutek? Gutkowski beat Chris Stanmore-Major by just 40 seconds and all four boats finish within 48 hours of each other, the pressure is now ...


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