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Route du Rhum - Safran lining up for the French West Indies

Sailing

11:01 PM Thu 11 Nov 2010 GMT

'Safran - Route du Rhum' Safran Sailing Team

With 500 miles to go to the Route du Rhum finish, Marc Guillemot and his fellow competitors are having to work flat out once again to deal with winds that are very variable in direction and strength. There are still no trade winds established down here and it is in a southerly breeze that Safran is having to sail by tacking upwind to make her way to Guadeloupe. Since the tropical depression Tomas formed to the north of Haiti, the sailing conditions in the whole of this south western corner of the North Atlantic have been particularly difficult to interpret: ...

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by Soazig Gu?ho