Global Ocean Race - Groupe Picoty prepares for Route du Rhum send-off

7:53 PM Thu 14 Oct 2010 GMT

'Groupe Picoty: ready for the Route du Rhum - Global Ocean Race' Bertrand Duquenne

Global Ocean Race 2011-12. In mid-June this year, the Class40 Association President, Jacques Fournier and his Global Ocean Race 2011-12 (GOR) co-skipper, Jean-Edouard Criquioche, took delivery of a new Finot-Conq Design Class40, Groupe Picoty. While the French duo are fully focused on the GOR circumnavigation, the forthcoming, single-handed Route du Rhum from St. Malo to Guadaloupe provides 40 year-old Criquioche with an opportunity to fully test and develop new systems on Groupe Picoty and move ahead of the game. Since taking delivery of their new Pogo S? Class40 at the Structures yard in B?nodet, Brittany, Fournier and Criquioche have been ...

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