Route du Rhum - A winner in waiting?

9:53 PM Mon 8 Nov 2010 GMT

'Groupama - La Route du Rhum 2010' ? AFP

Route du Rhum update from the fleet. Franck Cammas is in the throes of what should logically be his final tacks on Groupama 3 this evening, ones which should take him to a sweet but hard earned victory in this ninth edition of the Route du Rhum-La Banque Postale. On his final afternoon and evening aboard the 31 metre giant trimaran which has served him and the Groupama 3 team so well, Cammas looks to be on course to win one of the only major French Multihull ocean racing honours to have so far eluded him. With a margin of ...

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