The 11th edition and 40th-anniversary staging of the Route du Rhum-Destination Guadeloupe solo transatlantic race got underway in spectacular style today off the Brittany French port of Saint-Malo on Nov. 4, as a record entry of 123 skippers set sail for Guadeloupe.
Conditions could not have been better for spectators and sailors alike, as the fleet reveled in 20 knots of breeze coming off the land on a beautiful autumn afternoon.
