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Route du Rhum - Actual suffers damage to cross beam

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5:46 AM Mon 8 Nov 2010 GMT

'Actual' DPPI/Vend?e Saint Petersbourg

Route du Rhum-La Banque Postale update. At 0100hrs (CET) this morning (Monday) Yves le Blevec, skipper of the Multi 50 Actual informed his team and the Route du Rhum-La Banque Postale race director that the trimaran has sustained damage to the forward starboard cross beam. Le Blevec has lowered the mainsail of Actual and is sailing under ORC headsail in 20 knots of SE'ly wind. Actual is located equi-distance between the West Indies and the Azores. On the advice of weather router Christian Dumard, le Blevec is making a W'ly course of around eight knots to clear the worst of ...

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