Liz Wardley will be back soon for SolOceans Round-the-world

Here is the conclusion after the shock taken by the Liz Wardley's SolOceans One-design during the storm off Ouessant: 'The first investigations show that on the flattest part of the hull the taping of the cockpit bulkhead has come away from the hull ', Manu Le Borgne declared.

'The core samples made on the carbon sandwich show that the honeycomb is intact and not damaged'. On his side, Jean-Marie Vaur added: 'The small part that is damaged is a secondary structural element, and has no effect on the reliability of the main structure, which is absolutely not damaged '.

It will take less time to repair than thought at the beginning, when the news of the shock was known. Nevertheless, Liz Wardley will have to wait around a week before resuming her navigation on the first leg of the Round-the-world Reference Tour of the SolOceans - OceanoScientific? Campaign 2009-2010 towards Wellington (New Zealand).

Reference Around-the-world Tour of the SolOceans - OceanoScientific? Campaign 2009-2010 Liz will be able to go back sooner than expected in order to make the SolOceans One-design route towards Wellington (NZ).

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by SolOceans News and Sail-World.com

11:26 AM Wed 9 Dec 2009 GMT

'Liz Wardley - SolOceans - OceanoScientific? Campaign 2009-2010 (Photo Jean-Marie Liot - SailingOne)' SolOceans

Liz Wardley was forced to turn just after beginning her Tour of the SolOceans - OceanoScientific? Campaign 2009-2010. Wardley reports hitting something. here is the latest news on the boat.

At Port-La-For?t, the maritime expert Emmanuel Le Borgne - who was also Michel Desjoyaux's crew onboard Foncia during their victory in the Transat Jacques Vabre 2007 - and Jean-Marie Vaur (JMV Industries), builder of the SolOceans One-design series in Cherbourg, surveyed the boat.

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