It is one of the world's longest-running ocean races.
The race consisted of nine ocean races and ten in-port races.
For Autissier, hopes of winning the eight-month ocean race all but evaporated.
Though their peoples have just such hideous white skin, they have other proper characteristics of the ocean races.
Furthermore, an ocean race does not seem worthy of the title unless an ocean is actually crossed in the exercise.
He has competed in some of the world's toughest offshore ocean races.
"I think the mentality we've had on board has been centered around the style of long ocean races," he said.
Bermuda's maritime heritage can be seen most clearly in the many regattas and ocean races held during the summer.
His daughter, Dory, sailed her first ocean race when she was 29 days old.
No great open ocean race would be won by a monohull, ever again.