Volvo Ocean Race Starts

Leaving behind the fiesta atmosphere of the race village in Alicante, its down to more serious business. The weather was extremly bad at the start with winds up to 25 knots making it near impossible for most of the ribs to escort the race yachts out to sea. Ericsson 4 got off to a good lead, however with 45000 kms to go, that is no gurantee.