Transat Jacques Vabre. - Race director announces race start postponed

8:40 AM Sun 30 Oct 2011 GMT

A. Courcoux

Transat Jacques Vabre, raced every two years by duos, was due to start today, Sunday 30 October 2011 at 1302hrs CET in Le Havre, France. After a meeting between skippers and Race Direction of the Transat Jacques Vabre this morning the start of the biennial race from Le Havre to Puerto Limon, Costa Rica, race director Jean Maurel announced the decision to postpone the start. A prologue race will be staged with a start at 1302hrs. The decision was taken because of the approach of a very significant low pressure system due to generate storm force winds for the 35 ...

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by H?l?ne Tzara