We witnessed the start of the 2014 Atlantic Odyssey and followed the website to find out how they fared. All in all they had a pretty rough ride it seems. It's put us off going over the Atlantic this year as the weather and sea conditions are clearly not what we had imagined or been told what is usual. In fact everywhere we have been this year people have said it is a bad year weather wise. 
We were surprised that some yachts/cats were racing towards the start line with 3000 miles to go. I suppose it makes it fun for the competitive.
John and Sabine aboard 'Chevaldy' heading off to cross the Atlantic on their own. We heard later that they had to motor back to Las Palma marina for repairs as their standing rigging snapped.
A couple of weeks after our engine repairs another diesel leak started whilst testing the engine. Not entirely unexpected. With help from John and Diego we identified the problem to the injection pump outlets. We got the parts and fixed it ourselves and with some super conscientious fuel line bleeding by John the engine has never sounded better.
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