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jean mi is a 100 year old single guy from Moorea, French Polynesia.
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Ia'orana, bonjour, welcome, bon dia, it's all for you! You'll find here mostly photograpy, paintings, visuals, cause english is not my language; I 'm shure all kind of pictures was also our first language...and is still universal, (as internet?)

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   three month before start :  Volvo Ocean Race  (04 10 2008 Alicante, spain)
                                            70 feet of pure power , sailing at the extreme
         
                                          Some are training, like russian team (first participation) Ph: Th Martinez


                                                                              Or Puma, training in rhode island


                                                                                   

                  Others are still on their road to the blue sea like telephonica blue, spain team (ph: maria muina) 
                                                                      

These are the "last generation" but there will be some "old ones" refit from the last race, four years ago, and the comparison will be interresting !

             


                                 A new points scoring system, allocating equal points for each leg irrespective of length, was designed to scrap the advantage traditionally offered to the first leg winner, who generally had gone on to win the race. The new regime required the crews to keep the pedal to the metal 24/7, pushing hard, hard, hard through 33,000 nautical miles right to the finish line