Fotogalerie Leg 2
Barcelona, 01 February 2011 Day 32
Pirates and Cow Boys in the Indian
Pirates and Cow Boys duelling for third in the Third
Low pressure generator still a threat
Mike Golding visits Visio-Conference
While the Barcelona World Race leader Virbac-Paprec 3 this afternoon look very much like they should make it to the Crozet ice gate just on time, sneaking ahead of the depression which has been threatening them for the last few days, the podium challenge of Kito de Pavant and Sébastien Audigane Groupe Bel to Spain’s Estrella Damm appears to be increasing by the hour.
The duel in the Indian Ocean between the ‘Red Cow Boys’ – De Pavant and Audigane - on the VPLP Verdier designed Groupe Bel which is also known as ‘Cochise’ (ed note as in Cow Cheese!), and Alex Pella and Pepe Ribes, who signs his communications as ‘Jack Sparrow’ on the Red Pearl which is better known as the Farr designed Estrella Damm. From being nearly eighty miles ahead of their French rivals, the RCN Barcelona flagged IMOCA Open 60 and Groupe Bel are now alongside each other on the same longitude and separated north-south by just 12 miles.
Ribes, on good form on today’s Visio-Conference and visibly enjoying every hour of his race along with his partner Pella, quipped that they would be getting the binoculars out to scan the horizon for the Red Cow Boys on the Laughing Cow.
Dee Caffari and Anna Corbella on GAES Centros Auditivos, who passed the longitude of the Cape of Good Hope this morning at 0930hrs UTC, have been feasting on Caffari’s favourite Haribo sweets. On her fourth passage past the South African Cape, twice from east-to-west and now twice from west-to-east, Caffari said: “We can’t stay miserable and have to reindex positive as we have these conditions for a while. Reaching another milestone is always good and it is fantastic for Anna to have passed the Cape of Good Hope today, something she has never done before on a race.”
17.02.2011 - Herrmann/Breymaier haben die
Mirabaud überholt
17.02.2011 - The Wellington question
16.02.2011 - „Virbac-Paprec 3“:Reparaturstopp in Neuseeland
16.02.2011 - Virbac-Paprec 3 to stopover in Wellington
15.02.2011 - Countdown to spectacular Cook Straits
10.02.2011 - Konfuse See statt Rauschefahrt
10.02.2011 - boatbuilders keep MAPFRE in the fight
05.02.2011 - Drama auf der „Neutrogena“
02.02.2011 - „Neutrogena“ jagt die „Mirabaud“
02.02.2011 - Red Line Speed
01.02.2011 - Pirates and Cow Boys in the Indian
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Foto: www.barcelonaworldrace.com
© Yvan Zedda
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