Dee Caffari who completed the Flora London Marathon on Sunday with a time of 7 hours 23 minutes and 59 seconds raising funds for the Sail 4 Cancer campaign, is now fully recovered and is back in ocean race training mode.

Caffari was spotted in her Open 60 out in the Channel putting in some serious training for the busy year ahead.

Caffari’s Aviva Ocean Racing campaign is planned to culminate with her entry into the 2008/9 Vendee Globe see previous news story here. Caffari’s campaign will include a series of IMOCA (International Monohull Open Class Association) Open 60 races throughout 2007/8 in preparation for her entry into the 2008/9 Vendee Globe.

The new Owen Clark designed purpose Open 60 for the 2008 Vendee Globe entry is now under construction.