Weekly summary of the Volvo ocean race

Weekly summary of the Volvo ocean race by Alfonso Valmaseda

fotos maria muiña, ugo fonollà. 

This week the Volvo ocean race has left from the port of Melbourne, heading for Hong Kong. We must think that the world of sailing and china are approaching more and more.

 The clearest example is the Dongfeng Chinese team at this stage will leave the most interesting cuernosLo this week is the acquisition of chumy Bermúdez de Castro this going it is hard put to the Mapfre. In the virtual race is seen as all the boats at the beginning have stuck to the coast. 

The party will be at the moment on be moving away from the coast. Due to weather conditions there is a small storm that makes is that in the area of coast there is no wind so why are most heading east rather than West this is the great difference between those who are first or if following. Thinking that they are going up the coast with which spreading much also leave positions to vessels. This year in this race is likely to be first the Mapfre team which would be a great milestone and would also be the first time that a Spanish woman won this important regatta. This would also be a great milestone. 

Dongfeng team has on board Frank cammas and think it's one of the reasons that have led off the coast. All teams that have opted for this decision are very happy: TURN THE TIDE. DONG FEN. AZKONOBEL. Coming days will surely see a lot of surprises. The game virtua racing which give us an idea of where are the boats and where they go.

in this video frank cammas has us see his return to the race and looks great as long is this stage with 6000 miles ahead.

This video tells us the mapfre xavi as is are going from the coast and explains difficult passages, in addition to assuming that it was not a good start.