VendeeGlobe Sailing Race started

The 2012 edition of the VendeeGlobe Sailing Race has started. 

The start of the Real Boats could be viewed some TV stations (France, Europe?) but also on Internet on the Vendee website. 
This is a good coverage, expected in this time. 

There were some 3 boats which caused an early start and had to do some penalty. Sad to say that shortly after the Start already 2 Boats suffered problems , large enough to return to base for repairs; now  19 hours later I still see both Boats sitting in the harbour on the Race tracker.

If you like to follow the boats than a visit to the VendeeGlobe website will give you a link to the Race Tracker, or just check my blog in the TAB: "ROUTE"

Alongside the real boats a large number of Virtual Boats have started the VendeeGlobe, some 180,000 registered boats. 
To follow the same you may look at my TAB:  "ROUTE"
where I show a Map with a daily progress location for the leader in the VendeeGlobe, my virtual boat in VR and my virtual boat in LS. 
LiveSkipper another modern virtual sailing game, has organised a Sail the Globe Sailing race with a slightly different route, however.