Dick and Foxall win Barcelona World Race

(CNN) -- Jean-Pierre Dick and Damian Foxall have won the Barcelona World Race after just over 92 days at sea.

They steered their Open 60 Paprec-Virbac 2 across the finish line off the Spanish city after a 28,329 mile journey, non-stop around the planet.

It was an impressive display of speed and seamanship and Dick was quick to praise his partner.

"The key factor of this race is the co-skipper -it took a long time to decide before Damian and it was important for me to select a good one. I had a good feeling and this has made the difference. It is what is interesting in double handed racing," he said.

Foxall was equally impressed by Dick.

"He is a very dependable, amazingly driven, and it isn't that it surprised me but I didn't realise quite how much. He has almost an excess of patience which is a great advantage in a sailing boat, as it's impossible to race as fast as you want ever, and an important characteristic to have.

"But you also need the drive, strength and tenacity to match that patience - it is all ok to want to go faster but you have to do everything to make that happen - it is 24 hours a day for three months. He is one of the only people I have met who can maintain that level of drive."

Hugo Boss was set to finish second to Paprec-Virbac 2 after horrid conditions in the Straits of Gibralter with gusts of 50 knots which Andrew Cape described as "their worst night in the race." E-mail to a friend

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