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100311  Ainhoa Sanchez/VELUX 5 OCEANS.Free for editorial use image, please credit: Ainhoa Sanchez/w-w-i.com..VELUX 5 OCEANS skipper Zbigniew Gutkowski´s yacht Operon Racing is hoisted to repair keel damage in Punta del Este Uruguay. .Zbigniew Gutkowski is one of Poland's best known and most experienced sailors with a wealth of offshore and inshore racing. Known as 'Gutek' and from Gdansk, he has experience sailing in a wide range of mono and multihulls and has clocked up ore than 100,000 miles in his bid to become the first Polish sailor ever to race solo around the world..The VELUX 5 OCEANS is the oldest single-handed round the world yacht race. Run every 4 years since 1982, the race is the longest and toughest event for any individual in any sport. The race is a series of five high-pressure ocean sprints within a marathon circumnavigation. The 30,000 route takes the sailors from La Rochelle FR to Cape Town SA, then onto Wellington NZ, Punta del Este Uruguay, Charleston USA and back to La Rochelle FR, for the finish. For further VELUX 5 OCEANS images go to http://www.w-w-i.com/velux_5_oceans_2010_race/ .For media enquiries contact: Sarah Hames at: shames@velux5oceans.com or call her on + 44 (0)7813 009 783. For content related enquiries contact info@w-w-i.com on call +44 (0)845 900 2 900. This image is copyright Ainhoa Sanchez/VELUX 5 OCEANS. The author is asserting his full Moral rights in relation to the publication of this image. Rights for onward transmission of this image or file is not granted or implied. Changing or deleting Copyright information is illegal as specified in the Copyright, Design and Patents Act 1988. If you are in any way unsure of your right to publish this image please contact info@w-w-i.com..GZ Keywords..Accomplishment, Action, Adventure, Around The World, Boat, Brave, Captain, Challenge, Character Building, Circumnavigation, Climate, Cold, Competition, Competitive, Dare, Drift, Eco 60, Emotion, Experience, Extreme, Float, Global, Happines

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100311  Ainhoa Sanchez/VELUX 5 OCEANS.Free for editorial use image, please credit: Ainhoa Sanchez/w-w-i.com..VELUX 5 OCEANS skipper Zbigniew Gutkowski´s yacht Operon Racing is hoisted to repair keel damage in Punta del Este Uruguay. .Zbigniew Gutkowski is one of Poland's best known and most experienced sailors with a wealth of offshore and inshore racing. Known as 'Gutek' and from Gdansk, he has experience sailing in a wide range of mono and multihulls and has clocked up ore than 100,000 miles in his bid to become the first Polish sailor ever to race solo around the world..The VELUX 5 OCEANS is the oldest single-handed round the world yacht race. Run every 4 years since 1982, the race is the longest and toughest event for any individual in any sport. The race is a series of five high-pressure ocean sprints within a marathon circumnavigation. The 30,000 route takes the sailors from La Rochelle FR to Cape Town SA, then onto Wellington NZ, Punta del Este Uruguay, Charleston USA and back to La Rochelle FR, for the finish. For further VELUX 5 OCEANS images go to http://www.w-w-i.com/velux_5_oceans_2010_race/ .For media enquiries contact: Sarah Hames at: shames@velux5oceans.com or call her on + 44 (0)7813 009 783. For content related enquiries contact info@w-w-i.com on call +44 (0)845 900 2 900. This image is copyright Ainhoa Sanchez/VELUX 5 OCEANS. The author is asserting his full Moral rights in relation to the publication of this image. Rights for onward transmission of this image or file is not granted or implied. Changing or deleting Copyright information is illegal as specified in the Copyright, Design and Patents Act 1988. If you are in any way unsure of your right to publish this image please contact info@w-w-i.com..GZ Keywords..Accomplishment, Action, Adventure, Around The World, Boat, Brave, Captain, Challenge, Character Building, Circumnavigation, Climate, Cold, Competition, Competitive, Dare, Drift, Eco 60, Emotion, Experience, Extreme, Float, Global, Happines