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RORC Transatlantic Race - I Love Poland, VO70 on board footage, drone and arrival

by Trish Jenkins 21 Jan 2022 04:18 PST 21 January 2022
The Volvo Open 70 I Love Poland makes her way into Port Louis Marina © Arthur Daniel / RORC

The Volvo 70 I Love Poland (POL) finished the RORC Transatlantic Race on the 18th of January in an elapsed time of 10 days 11 hrs 12 mins and 50 secs.

Skippered by Grzegorz Baranowski, the team is composed of young talented Polish sailors. OBR Robert Hadjuk's great imagery shows what it's really like to race across the Atlantic in a Volvo 70.

The 14-person crew of I Love Poland included the winners of The Polish National Foundation's training programs, as well as the helmsman and the captain - Grzegorz Baranowski. I Love Poland is a project aimed primarily at training the next generations of ocean sailors.

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