The 44th Rolex Middle Sea Race turned into a David and Goliath battle between one of the biggest and the smallest entrants in a typically mixed set of conditions for the classic Mediterranean 606-mile offshore.
The 110 yachts starting on Saturday 21 October even saw widely variant breezes depending on their class start times, following a confused forecast and warm but overcast and humid conditions. As the multihulls began, the wind shifted from the south in the first part of the start area to the north by the time they were halfway down the
