Welcome for your DesTopNews N°10 - Week commencing March 8 -
• Groupama 3 has been losing a lot of ground against the Jules Verne’s Trophy record since rounding Cap Horn.
• 70 skippers from seven countries competed in the OK Worlds held last month in Wellington New Zealand. The following report from our Yachting correspondent Julie Ash from TV One Sport
• A premier new sailing event has been launched in Milan last week. The Nespresso Cup will be gathering exclusively the Wally Class in Italy next spring.
• In the Omega Match Racing Regatta held in Auckland, Dean Barker and Ben Ainslie emerged from a World Class fleet to contest the final. The following report from our Yachting correspondent Martin Tasker.
• Alexia Barrier has left Cap Town for Rio de Janeiro for the second leg of her ecological journey "4 My Planet"
• Over 2,500 sailors enjoyed spectacular sailing conditions for the 30th Annual St Marteen Heineken Regatta. DesTopNews is a weekly sailing update program released each Wednesday. It is hosted by Sebastien Destremau in French and English and translated into German by Tim Kroger