Barcelona World Race - Back in the black

11:36 PM Sat 19 Feb 2011 GMT

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Finally Estrella Damm and Groupe Bel get moving again after a long, frustrating period making very slow progress towards Cape Farewell. Pepe Ribes and Alex Pella are making 10.5kts this evening (NZ morning) and Kito De Pavant and Seb Audigane on Groupe Bel, four miles behind, are making 9.8kts. If the duo can take any solace from their anguish over this period in the calms, it is that they have been stuck in the same sticky stuff together. Of course Groupe Bel's ambition has just been to get to Wellington to get on with their technical stop, while the Estrella ...

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