It wasn’t an easy decision for the Volvo Ocean Race, that’s for sure. The cyclone is passing now, it’s very strong, and once she’s gone she’ll leave a high pressure behind and, as incredible as it might sound, the wind will decrease really really quick to almost nothing. So, if you leave too early, you can get into trouble in winds too strong to sail.
All in all, if after two days waiting we leave too early, there’ll be too much wind, which wouldn’t make any sense after the delay, and if we leave just some hours too late, people won’t understand it either. So going for one thing or the other changes the outlook of the race completely, or at least the first half of it.
Iker Martínez