RORC Transatlantic Race - Lanzarote ESP - Start on saturday

With a record participation of 30 teams, the start of the 3,000-mile race across the Atlantic to Grenada will take place on Saturday in Arrecife on Lanzarote. ----- The 100-foot Super Maxi 'Comanche' with the Olympic medalist Mitch Booth AUS at the helm will start as favorite in the monohulls. The promising weather forecasts put a new course record within the realms of possibility, the previous best standing at 10 days 5 hours. ----- In the multihulls, the MOD70 trimarans 'Powerplay', 'Argo', and 'Maserati' will line up in front. ----- The reports.