Sea serpents, wolves and lizards lie in wait for the 39 skippers on the last lap of the Solitaire du Figaro which starts from Torbay at tea time on Sunday. The course, shortened by 90 miles in anticipation of light winds, goes west down the Channel and then north to an exclusion zone off north Cornwall where heavy electricity cables lie undulating on the sea bed and then back south to Wolf Rock and past the Lizard before heading west up the Channel to the Owers Light off Selsey Bill and the dive south to the finish line at Dieppe. Читать дальше...