Barcelona World Race - Another test for Estrella Damm



6:06 PM Wed 6 Apr 2011 GMT
'Alex Pella steering Estrella Damm - Barcelona World Race' Estrella Damm Sailing Team &copy
Barcelona World Race - In training, training races and deliveries to and from races on Estrella Damm, Alex Pella and Pepe Ribes sailed more than 30,000 miles and must have passed through the Straits of Gibraltar a dozen times. Even across those accumulated preparatory miles, plus all of the 28,500 or so racing miles that they will have sailed on this Barcelona World Race course itself over the last three months, it has been some of the final miles, passing through the notorious Straits of Gibraltar in into the Alboran Sea, 520 miles from the finish that have been their ...


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