A great New Year’s present for Dee Caffari!
News
January 02, 2008
© Chris Cameron / DPPI 15-25 knots southerlies and brilliant sunshine off Wellington (New Zealand) - ideal conditions to carry out the first sea trials on the new 60-foot Open Aviva, aboard which the British yachtswoman Dee Caffari will be setting sail in the next Vendée Globe.
"It will be the biggest challenge of my career," she stated. Hardly had she had time to recover from the Transat B to B, and Dee Caffari was flying off to New Zealand to take a look at her new Aviva, which was being completed in Wellington. A great New Year’s present for Dee, who was able to take her out to sea for the first time. We shall be seeing them both in Les Sables d´Olonne in early November...
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- 12.20.2007 : Final phase of construction for Artemis Ocean racing II
- 12.11.2007 : Loick Peyron leading the Transat B to B
- 12.04.2007 : Brian Thompson to take part in the 2008 Vendée Globe
- 11.30.2007 : The Vendée Globe is present at the Paris Boat Show
- 11.23.2007 : What can we learn from the Transat Jacques Vabre?
- 11.09.2007 : One year to go
- 10.10.2007 : The Vendée Globe 2008/09 : already one for the history books
- 09.20.2007 : Yannick Bestaven will be at the helm of Parlier’s old boat
- 09.07.2007 : Groupe Bel is in the water
- 09.03.2007 : Marc Guillemot’s monohull, Safran, christened in Le Havre
- 08.02.2007 : Bilou has relaunched his monohull
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