PHOTO: In case you have never rounded Fastnet Rock

This is what it looks like at 0330 on August 13. Team SCA, which is training on a VO70 for the 2014-15 Volvo Ocean Race, competing in the 45th Rolex Fastnet Race…the legendary 611-nautical mile race from Cowes, Isle of Wight to Plymouth via the Fastnet Rock on the southern tip of Ireland. Below are photos by Rick Tomlinson of Team SCA from the start in the Solent and by the Needles.