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Groupama 70 crosses Transmanche finish line



2:08 AM Sun 23 May 2010 GMT
'Groupama 70' Yvan Zedda &copy
Transmanche race update from Groupama 70. After setting out from Aber Wrach yesterday evening, bound for the Plymouth breakwater and then straight on to Wolf Rock, Groupama 70 crossed the Transmanche finish line off this Breton paradise at 1445 GMT this Saturday. 'We constantly had a little more wind than that forecast on the grib files. Those one or two extra knots of breeze have a big influence on the average speed' explained Charles Caudrelier on his arrival in Aber Wrach. Indeed, having covered 280 miles in around twenty hours, that amounts to an average speed of 14 knots. Not ...


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