Pre Les Sables-Azores

Everyone has arrived and we are well underway with the briefings and safety checks for the first leg of this seasons major event, from Les Sables d'Olonne to Horta on Ilha do Faial in the Azores. The Leg is around 1300Nm.

Unfortunately the number of competitors is not as many as was hoped. There are around 35 boats taking place. It is going to be a very tight fleet as it is only the most competitive boats that have entered, so the standard will be very high.

The weather has looked very stable up to now with the Azores high doing what it should, but thinks are looking as if they may change before our start on the 1st August. I have been running daily routing programs and making detailed pressure logs to analyse which will be the fastest route, this is how it is looking so far.

I will write again with an update before the start with the link for the race tracker.