| Don Diego knew by a glance at the dress and manner of the stranger, that she was a Gitana. |
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| La Gitana is racy and complex and is probably the closest thing to the Fino style wines you drink in Spain. |
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| A Gitana will enter a shop, and purchase some insignificant article. |
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| In the end, Gitana took first place and Renaissance could only manage a fourth, behind Masirah and Ecover. |
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| Loïck Peyron, just a few miles astern, changed course slightly to go and pick up his colleague and take him onboard Gitana Eighty. |
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| In fact, a transition zone, synonymous with a considerable reduction in pace, is shaping up ahead of Gitana Eighty and her rivals. |
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| It was quite amazing as just 300 metres upwind from us, I saw boats like Brit Air and Gitana Eighty getting away. |
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| The time to beat is the record of 38 hours set by Gitana Eighty in 2008 on this same course. |
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| We saw too that other boats, which were already doing well, have gone a step further, like Generali and Gitana Eighty. |
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| Safran took advantage of that to carry out a friendly duel with Gitana 80 for the first seven hours of the delivery trip. |
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| Foncia and Gitana Eighty are on Safran's heels, as they clocked slightly higher speeds throughout the night. |
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| Gitana X was hailed as a worthy trainer for young talent, Gitana 11 as a shining top-tier contender. |
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| Look for Hidalgo La Gitana, Lustau, Barbadillo and Gonzalez Byass Tio Pepe. |
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| Lastly, on Gitana X, Alex Marmorat is devoting himself to the construction of his Mini Transat, so Arnaud de Boringer is to replace him as wincher. |
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| To round all that off, the team will make the most of the opportunity to buff up the hull so that Gitana 11 can slip along perfectly. |
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| All's well that ends well for Gitana X and its fresh, young crew, and for Gitana 11, which placed second in the championship thanks to a very fine second in the Transat Jacques Vabre and feisty runs in the Grand Prix events. |
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| That was probably the case today, as the leading boats got much closer together on the same track, to the point that Safran is possibly sailing within sight of Gitana Eighty! |
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| In light weather, we should theoretically find amongst the leaders the title holder, Yann Guichard's Gitana 11, lengthened from 60 to 75 feet, but remaining lighter than the other boats. |
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| The history of the Gitana fleet is a story of a passion for watersports, to which each generation of the family has successively made its mark in respect of a shared exactingness. |
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| The wonderful La Gitana from Hidalgo is only a few quid more. |
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| Oman Air Majan will be competing in a class of eight boats and amongst her rivals are her sister boat, Sodeb'O and Gitana 11, the overall winner of the 2006 race. |
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| To put it simply, PRB and Brit Air are the closest to this ridge of high pressure and are likely to find less wind, while BT and Gitana Eighty have found a good compromise with a little more air and a decent angle. |
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| Lionel Lemonchois crosses the finishing line of the 2006 Route du Rhum at the helm of Gitana 11, in a record time of 7 days, 17 hours, 10 minutes and 06 seconds! |
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| Gitana 11 makes second place on the podium. |
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| Gitana Eighty effected a smart change of tack last night which this morning saw her take up second place in the fleet behind the Englishman Mike Golding. |
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| September, the first day of the regatta, Gitana 11 crosses the finish line in the lead at the end of the three runs of the day and Gitana 12 is able to overtake Michel Desjoyeaux. |
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| Onboard Gitana 13, there is no alternate route. The ten sailors have no choice but to lay low and be ready to resume their voyage as soon as the weather improves. |
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| The only negative point is I'm not quite on the same latitude as Gitana. |
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| As Gitana 11 is beamy and sits quite low on the water, she gets carried away by the waves and you have to try to guide her along as best you can so she doesn't suffer. |
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| In the meantime, baron Edmond and then baron benjamin de Rothschild transformed a family passion into a human and technological challenge, entering Gitana boats in the most prestigious sailing competitions. |
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| Frédéric Le Peutrec made a superb tactical move on Sunday in heading west towards Tunisia to latch onto wind backing from NW to S. Gitana 11 is now just astern of the leader and Gitana X has made it back into the peloton! |
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| In conditions such as these, I had no choice but to ease off the pace as, with each wave, Gitana 11 was flying and then ploughing into the next one. |
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| No wind, seas like a millpond and the sails flogging every which way I alternated between little siestas and checks of Gitana Eighty, trying to make headway as best I could. |
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| Gitana X is heavier than her competitors but not to nervy which is an advantage in unstable conditions and medium air, but to her disadvantage in unsteady weather. |
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| Particularly when there was not much wind in little sea, conditions which Gitana X does not appreciate too much We have had a spot of bother with the Iridium telephone which overheated. |
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| I used to wear these big hoop earrings, my hair down to my hips, super-tight jeans and blouses with embroidery, like I was some kind of gitana. |
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