Barcelona World Race - Fleet closing up



9:31 PM Tue 18 Jan 2011 GMT
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Barcelona World Race leaders Estrella Damm slow through the high pressure zone, giving the chasing fleet another chance to regain miles with the South Atlantic elastic band is twanging back this evening. Although there have been no chances in the leaderboard this evening, and Virbac Paprec 3 remains undercover in ?stealth? mode, there has been a change of tactics for the most westerly boat visible on the track, Foncia. Michel Desjoyeaux and Francois Gabart (FRA) are currently sailing on a heading of 163 degrees, no longer following the South American shoreline but heading south-east and potentially on course to rejoin ...


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