Hugo Boss arrives in Barcelona

At 12:20 Thursday, British solo sailor Alex Thomson and his co-skipper Andrew Cape, on Hugo Boss, sailed into Moll de la Fusta, Barcelona, completing their 2,100 mile qualifier for the Barcelona World Race.

With ten days to go until the start of the race on 11 November, HUGO BOSS was the final boat to arrive in the race village. It has taken a little over seven days for Thomson and Cape to complete their delivery from Gosport, UK, and they will now make final preparations for the 25,000 nautical mile race around-the-world.

Alex commented: 'It has been a light but fast trip down from Gosport and we are really pleased to have arrived in Barcelona. The new HUGO BOSS has performed very well on the delivery sail and we are pretty much ready to go. This has been the longest Capey and I have been on the boat together and we have got on brilliantly. We can’t wait until Sunday to get this race underway.'

Having left last Wednesday evening, Alex and Capey have taken this opportunity to sail under race conditions. They have even started to get themselves used to the freeze dried food that they will be living on for the next three months.

Their route aboard the new Hugo Boss has been non-stop and has seen them sail from Gosport to Ushant, then in a straight line to Finisterre, before sailing due south down the coast of Portugal. Hugo Boss then turned east through the Gibraltar Straights, before following the coast of Spain all the way to Barcelona.

The Barcelona World Race is a new two-handed non-stop round the world yacht race starting and finishing in Barcelona. Nine boats will race 25,000 miles over 3 months across the planet's most hostile and challenging oceans in high performance IMOCA Open 60 monohulls. Never before has a two-handed, non-stop round the world race been staged.

Here at GetMyNameDown.com we are supporting Alex and Andrew in this race and wish them all the best.

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