TEAM MAPFRE VOLVO OCEAN RACE 2017

GREAT BEGINNINGS

Xabi, Ñeti, Neal, Pablo, Rob, Willy ... All are part of the VO65 MAPFRE team. Latin, Anglo-Saxon, twenty-somethings, thirties, forty years, fifty ... A diverse mix of characters joined by passion: the Volvo Ocean Race.

Incredible stories of sailors, adventures of friends, dreams since childhood, passion for the sea, live adventures, discover new horizons. All these reasons can be those that encourage the different sailors participating in the Volvo Ocean Race to participate, there are very few who come to live in that incredible experience, that little deserve all our respect since a regatta as tough and demanding as it is Round the world makes a sailor stronger to face future challenges with greater energy.

I have had the privilege of knowing many sailors who have participated in a round the world and are not only great sailors, they are also great people, they are very special people since they have known to live together for days at sea, with few meters of Space and sharing many good experiences and we are so good. As Patan comments in the edition in which the Spanish boat MOVIESTAR sank, in that same stage the Dutch team ABM lost one of his companions by the border and this one died waiting to be rescued, once it was rescued without life boat Dutch tube that go to rescue the Spanish vessel MOVIESTAR, as this sank, in the Dutch boat had to coexist 19 person and a deceased, I do not know what that is, but I imagine that situation should not be simple for None of the sailors who were on board the boat since they had lost a friend and others had lost a boat.

My reflection is the following, you have to fight for the dreams that one creates but always fight knowing that there will be bitter defeats in which you will have to rise without having touched ground as much depend on us to continue fighting.