That’s true but navigating in and around ports isn’t part of this competition it’s 100% open water sailing. The start lines are defined as lines of longitude wi

That’s true but navigating in and around ports isn’t part of this competition it’s 100% open water sailing. The start lines are defined as lines of longitude with an autonomous run up of 40 nautical miles before hitting the start latitude and it’s roughly from a ways off the coast of Newfoundland to off the north coast of Spain both well away from land. http://www.microtransat.org/rules.php http://www.microtransat.org/rules.php