Global Ocean Race - Kiwi 40FC Peraspera sets off on qualifier



8:13 PM Wed 30 Mar 2011 GMT
'40 Degrees GOR qualifier Guadeloupe - Global Ocean Race' Global Ocean Race
Global Ocean Race 2011-12. In just under six months, the start gun for the double-handed, round the world Class40 Global Ocean Race 2011-12 (GOR) will be fired in Palma, Mallorca, and pre-race preparations for the 18 teams are rapidly picking up pace. As the all-female, Anglo-German duo of Hannah Jenner and Anna-Maria Renken approached Horta in the Azores on Tuesday with their chartered Owen Clarke Design Class40, 40 Degrees, in the final miles of their 2,000 mile qualifying sail from Guadeloupe, a second Class40 was leaving Florida, also bound for the remote, Portuguese outpost in the middle of the North ...


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by Oliver Dewar





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