Two days after flirting with one of the most beautiful terrestrial paradises, the Maldives, the crews of trimarans ‘Majan’ and ‘Musandam’ will face the underworld of the Indian Ocean with the meeting of the Tropical Cyclone ‘Gelan’ determined to barring their way.

“Have you ever made a journey to somewhere, where you know bad news awaits you?  We’re on a journey with some very bad news just ahead of us. As I write, there is a Tropical Cyclone called “Gelane” just off Mauritius. Its barometric pressure is 975hpa. If we were foolish enough to go within a 100knm radius of it’s epicenter, we would be battered with giant waves and winds gusting up to 100 mph” explained Mark Covell from the A100 trimaran ‘Majan’.

Read Mark Covell’s full blog entry in the Race News section below…