The Barcelona World Race, the nonstop world tour, the biggest challenge of sailing two may arise, he lived out his second edition December 31, 2010.At 13 pm on the last day of the year, 14 boats, each manned by two sailors, left to navigate the toughest sailing conditions that sports can offer. They left 28 men in order to cover more than 25,000 miles through the three great oceans. They did it on ships sailing to the latest technology and able to navigate them to their limits competition for 3 months continuously, without rest, Barcelona to Barcelona. This is an adventure sport, unprecedented human and technological.
In its second year, the Barcelona World Race outdid itself dramatically. If the first event in 2007, nine teams participated, this time they did 14 representing seven countries. At the starting line, located on the waterfront of the city, lined many of the best in offshore racing, as the great international figures of the first edition Jean-Pierre Dick, Dominique Wavre and Michèle Paret, they added much of the global elite class ships IMOCA Open 60: Loïck Peyron, Michel Desjoyeaux, Kito de Pavant, Jean Le Cam and Dee Caffari. The challenge also attracted large ocean racers in other specialties, both monohull and multihull, as Sébastien Audigane, Ludovic Aglaor, Boris Herrmann, Breymaier Ryan, Andy Meiklejohn and Wouter Verbraak, the latter in place of late Alex Thomson.
Also the success of the call provided a very satisfying and hopeful face for Spanish sailing. In the first edition, four Spanish took the start: Javier Bubi Sanso, Pachi Rivero, Albert Barger and Guillermo Altadill. William had to leave Cape Town, but Bubi and Pachi set a milestone by becoming the first Spanish to circle the world into two rooms and were within a few days, Albert Barger became the first to do it non-stop . Three years later, the Barcelona World Race managed to align to 13 Spanish navigators in the output, a figure unthinkable three years ago, demonstrating the binding power that has had the race between the excellent, but dispersed, cast of ocean sailors of our country . Great values enshrined and specialists in various forms, like Alex Pella, Pepe Ribes, Pachi Rivero, Antonio Piris, Iker Martinez, Xabi Fernandez, Bruno Garcia, Jaume Mumbru, Cali and John Merediz Sanmartí have coalesced in the IMOCA class with young people, as Gerard Marín, Fran and Anna Corbella Palace.
Never seen a race, which marked a before and after in the landscape of international ocean sailing.
