Barcelona World race - Damage to Foncia

11:11 AM Tue 11 Jan 2011 GMT

'Foncia Photo: Yvan Zedda - Barcelona World Race' Barcelona World Race &copy

Barcelona World Race - another casualty as Foncia heads to Recife after damaging their crash box. Jean Paul Roux, director of the Mer Agit?e received a call Sunday 9th January from Michel Desjoyeaux, the Foncia skipper to say that they had suffered damage to the crash box on the bow of their IMOCA Open 60. The crash box is broken off, the victim of a shock with a floating object. The crash box is a sacrificial section of the bow which is designed to absorb such impacts and help protect the hull itself. There is no immediate danger to the ...

Click here for full story.

by Barcelona World Race