Race 13 - Day 1
Skipper Report
18 July

Thank you to the authorities, to the organisers, to the population of the city of Derry-Londonderry and the county of Doire for the wonderful welcome, festival and all the other activities during this stopover.

The parade with all the boats illuminated, followed by a great fireworks were enjoyed by the whole crew of LMAX Exchange.

Leaving Foyle Marina with all the crowd along the river was impressive, as was the number of people in Greencastle to follow the start of race 13 to Den Helder, after rounding the north of Scotland.

Our performance at the start of the race was not good at all and we had to battle very hard to finally be in a better position leaving the north Irish coast to the south of Hebrides which we have to leave on starboard.