He has a good overall picture of the whole MAPFRE campaign. Supported by each and every one of his team, we speak with the skipper, the boss, the leader (though he does not like to be called like that).
Following his participation in the America’s Cup our skipper is back and fully into the daily team routine
Latin and anglo-saxon, twenty, thirty, forty and fifty somethings, they are an extremely diverse mix; joined together for one passion: the Volvo Ocean Race.
We spoke to Willy Altadill, one of MAPFRE’s Under-30s.
Just two days after getting back on the water following the breakage of their mast (on 30th March), the VO65 MAPFRE begins their second offshore training session from Lisbon, heading out to the Atlantic Ocean and onto Sanxenxo
After 15 intense days’ work at the Volvo Ocean Race Boatyard in Lisbon, following their dismasting in Galicia on 31st March, a new mast has been fitted and is ready for all-weather testing
