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In Three or four hours everything will be decided!!!If you like racing don't take away your eyes from the tracker. The actualizations are almost in real time (minutes).

The Spanish are now on the same course as Puma. No weather advantages now BUT THEY HAVE MANAGED TO WIN MORE 20NM over PUMA and they are now almost on top of it (1.6K).

Both boats are at about the same speed and there are more 55NM to go.... OLÉ

what a race It will be probably a match race till the end. Puma started with a 1.6K advantage and that is huge on a Match race with 55Nm.

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While we wait, I found out this beautiful movie about Itajaí region. I confess that I never heard about Itajaí but I am convinced. It looks like to be an incredible place to cruise and to know. It has just made an entry on the places I want to know.

Take a look:







http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Catarina_(state)




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[chall03]

Nice video !!!!! I am staying up here in Oz( It is 1030PM) to follow the race.

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Since we are talking about cruising, another nice cruising video about another nice and different place: Gibraltar, also born of a mix of cultures. This one I know very well and is a favorite place.

The boat is a nice one and one of the best fast cruisers you can find on the second hand market (not to old and at a nice price), a Dufour 40 performance.

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Any sailing video with monkeys and LMFAO in it does it for me. I like the Dufours in general. They are still a little expensive down here though.

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Originally Posted by chall03

A..I like the Dufours in general. They are still a little expensive down here though.

Not any Dufout I mean particularly that one and the bigger sister the 45 from the performance line. They were a lot more expensive than the ones from the "Grand cruising line" and it was not by the interior quality that is about the same, but for the sailing part of the boat.

That boat has a great D/B ratio (a lot more than the new version) and it is not only fast but seaworthy. They were sold in large numbers and popular with cruisers and cruiser/racers. The racers are selling them since the new model come and because there are a lot for sale the price is coming down. In Europe you can buy a 2005/2007 boat for about 110 000€ and older boats (since 2003) for less.

DUFOUR 40 - Voilier DUFOUR 40 d'occasion - Page 1

This was one of the boats I was considering having if I could not find anything better

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25 Nm to go and the Spanish have gained some distance but not much and now the distance seems to have stabilized on a 1.3Nm difference.

However now there is a slight difference in courses and it seems to me that Telefonica is going to try to catch the backwind on that Island. It seem a good Idea to me and given the wind direction I would say that they will get considerably more wind there. That should count for some more hundreds of meters.

The next hour will be decisive, with only two hours and a half to race Telefonica needs to gain at least 0.6Nm and I don't think I can do that going exactly the same course as Puma.

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Damn. That is actually very good value and they seem to be a very good sail. No Dufour 40 performance boats for sale down here.
Hmm makes the idea of cruising the Med/doing the ARC/season in the caribbean/tradewind sailing home across the pacific seem like a very good idea.

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Seems like a good pretext for a great sailing voyage

Meanwhile have a look at the wave that hit that clipper boat…a nasty one. The boat did a lot better than the guys on the deck. The amazing thing is that they did see it coming and they did not look to have made any move to get a better protection, like getting down and hold to the boat .

Yacht travolto dall'onda - Video - Corriere TV

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UAU!!! the Spanish are making it. On the last hour they managed to gain almost a mile to Puma and they are now at only 0.4Nm with 20NM to go.

Look at these pictures:







This has been an epic race!!!!!

The finish will be given in live video streaming. Don't miss it

Volvo Ocean Race 2011-2012