The race starts in La Gomera, Canary Islands, and the finish is in Nelson's Dockyard, Antigua. As the crow (or Albatross) flies, that is some 2,935 miles (or 5,491 km) - but we are not birds, and the wind and tides are likely to make it nearer 3000 miles - or maybe further.

Once the race is underway, we hope to be sending regular progress reports to our land support team, which will hopefully be posted on this site - look under "Latest news" on the left. So as November moves towards January, hopefully there will be a little dotted line on a map somewhere on this site, to signify our progress across the Atlantic.