Velux 5 Oceans 2010-11 epic battle comes to an end

12:10 PM Wed 1 Jun 2011 GMT

'The four skippers: Chris Stanmore-Major, Derek Hatfield, Gutek and Brad Van Liew at the end of the Velux 5 Oceans, in La Rochelle, France today' onEdition &copy

Velux 5 Oceans 2010-11 is the longest single handed event in the world. After nine months the racing has finished. It was an epic battle full of thrills and spills, highs and lows, drama and action - but like all good things it must come to an end. The arrivals of solo sailors Derek Hatfield and Zbigniew 'Gutek' Gutkowski into the French port of La Rochelle on Sunday marked the end of racing in the 2010-11 edition of the Velux 5 Oceans, following the arrivals of winner Brad Van Liew and Chris Stanmore-Major in the days previously. It was the ...

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