Barcelona World Race

By Alex Ceano

Barcelona World Race is a sailing race around the world without scales in a boat for 2 people celebrated every four years. The first edition was in 2007/2008 and the second stared on December 31st 2010 at 13.00 a.m. in front of the W Hotel in the port of Barcelona. The third edition will be celebrated in 2014. It is forbidden to help the crew during the race.

Its beginning and end are in Barcelona. The race arrives to Good Hope, Leeuwin and Horn and the Cook Strait.

The race covers 25,000 nautical miles (46,300 km) on the great circle, the shortest path on the surface of the Earth. The competition lasts approximately 3 months.

First edition.

At 13:00, in November 11th 2007, the first edition of the Barcelona World Race began, consisting of nine boats and 18 sailors from seven countries: France (9), Spain (4), United Kingdom (1), Australia (1), United States (1), Ireland (1) and Switzerland (1).

Classification:

Since	Boat	Crew	Time
1	Paprec-Virbac 2	Jean-Pierre Dick & Damian Foxall	92d 8h 49m 49s
2	Hugo Boss	Alex Thomson & Andrew Cape	94d 17h 34m 57s
3	Temenos II	Dominique Wavre & Michèle Paret	98d 6h 9m 10s
4	Mutua Madrileña	Javier "Bubi" Sansó & Pachi Rivero	99d 12h 18m 40s
5	Educación sin Fronteras	Albert Bargués & Servane Escoffier	108d 18h 55m 2s
6	Veolia Environnement	Roland Jourdain & Jean-Luc Nélias	retired
7	Estrella Damm	Guillermo Altadill & Jonathan McKee	retired
8	Delta Dore	Jérémie Beyou & Sidney Gavignet	retired
9	PRB	Vincent Riou & Sébastien Josse	retired

Second edition.

The second edition began in Barcelona in December 31st 2010, with an estimated duration of 90 days. In the southern hemisphere, there are three security doors to prevent ships from entering dangerous areas due to the existence of floating ice.

Classification:

Since	Boat	Crew	Time
1	Virbac-Paprec 3	Jean-Pierre Dick & Loïck Peyron	93d 22h 20m
2	Mapfre	Iker Martínez & Xabier Fernández	94d 21h 17m
3	Renault Z.E.	Pachi Rivero & Antonio Piris	97d 18h 47m
4	Estrella Damm	Alex Pella & Pepe Ribes	98d 20h 45m
5	Neutrogena	Boris Herrmann & Ryan Breymair	100d 3h 13m
6	GAES Centros Auditivos	Dee Caffari & Anna Corbella	102d 19h 17m
7	Hugo Boss	Alex Thomson & Andy Meiklejohn	111d 10h 49m
8	Fòrum Marítim Català	Gerard Marín & Ludovic Aglaor	112d 07h 17m
9	We Are Water	Jaume Mumbrú & Cali Sanmartí	156.4
10	Central Lechera Asturiana	Juan Merediz & Fran Palacio	retired
11	Mirabaud	Dominique Wavre & Michèle Paret	retired
12	Groupe Bel	Kito de Pavant & Sébastien Audigane	retired
13	Foncia	Michel Desjoyeaux & François Gabart	retired
14	Président	Jean Le Cam & Bruno García	retired