It is with great sadness that Rucker hears that Foncia, Michel Desjoyeaux and Francois Gabart, has had to retire from the two-handed Barcelona World Race.
The top section of their mast, the top 2 metres, has broken, leaving them no choice but to make passage to Cape Town.
Ocean Racing is a lonely old game, someone famous once should have said.
It has become a lot less lonely in these days of satellite broadband.
Their good friends and close rivals on Paprec-Virbac 3, Jean-Pierre Dick and Loïck Peyron, sent a heart-warming message:
“Hello guys, this is really not good news. We really had become inseparable, motivating each other all the time, asking ourselves each day if we could hold up this pace until the end. It's been a great honour to have been in this battle together. Good luck for the rest of the passage and our hearts go with you”.
Indeed, all our hearts are with you.
One thing is for sure, you haven't heard the last from these two RTW sailors.
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