Barcelona World Race - Breeze at last

7:59 PM Thu 6 Jan 2011 GMT

Barcelona World Race. While Barcelona and the rest of Spain was last night and today celebrating the Festival of the Three Magic Kings, the Barcelona World Race skippers, for the first time in recent days, shared the same present; the gift of good breezes. From the front to the back of the fleet wind speed were at least 15 knots, and boat speeds almost all reached double digits at times. In fact the leading duo, the ?wise kings? aboard Virbac-Paprec 3 and Foncia 3 had the extra bonus of getting to the weather front which allowed them to tack from ...

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