Class 40 - Les Sables FRA - Les Acores POR- Les Sables FRA - Day 1

In moderate winds, the 28-boat fleet started yesterday at noon for the 2,500-mile race to the Azores and back to France. In southerly winds dying down, the entire fleet is heading west closely together. ----- Axel Tréhin/Frédéric Denis FRA lead 1.6 miles ahead of Antoine Carpentier/Mikael Mergui FRA. ----- The race-tracker and the report.