8 / 02 / 2015
Leg four of the Volvo Ocean Race has begun. The Spanish team, with Xabi Fernández as skipper, is already sailing the early stages of a leg of almost 10,000 km. In the immediate future, they have four tough days upwind until North of the Philippines.Leg four of the Volvo Ocean Race has begun. The Spanish team, with Xabi Fernández as skipper, is already sailing the early stages of a leg of almost 10,000 km. In the immediate future, they have four tough days upwind until North of the Philippines.
2 / 02 / 2015
Guillermo ‘Willy’ Altadill, son of one of the biggest names in Spanish offshore sailing, has the chance to make his own reputation in the Volvo Ocean Race after being called up for the fourth leg by MAPFRE (Xabi Fernández/ESP).
28 / 01 / 2015
Dental problems – one of the worse curses that can strike an offshore sailor in the middle of the ocean – have forced MAPFRE’s Anthony Marchand out of the next leg of the Volvo Ocean Race from Sanya to Auckland.
27 / 01 / 2015
Xabi Fernández’s team finished in fourth place after a last intense 30 hours in which there was no time to rest.
17 / 01 / 2015
After 14 days of racing in leg 3 the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal didn’t give the fleet a break. “MAPFRE” fights in the top group. Ahead of them, less than 2,000 miles until the arrival in Sanya (China)
4 / 01 / 2015
The thick fog and light winds spoiled the beginning of the leg last Saturday in Abu Dhabi. Ahead of them, 4670 miles to Sanya (China) where “MAPFRE” hopes to be complete in about 22 or 25 days
