A new record for the 538-mile opening passage from Barcelona to Gibraltar

  • 06 January 2015

  •  http://www.skipperondeck.gr/index.php/latest/1674-barcelona-to-gibraltar3a-a-new-record.html

A new record for the 538-mile opening passage from Barcelona to Gibraltar was set by Alex Thomson and Pepe Ribes when they exited the Mediterranean on Hugo Boss on Thursday evening, leading the Barcelona World Race.

But their passage into the Atlantic proved problematic when they then hit two unidentified objects and hooked a net around their keel in strong winds and muscular seas.

The English-Spanish duo had no choice but to sail through the hours of darkness, at speeds which they reported to their technical team were 30 per cent less than they should have been.

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