Yachting: Kiwis aplenty in Volvo Ocean Race

The legendary Volvo Ocean Race gets underway early on Sunday morning from Vigo in Spain as the boats head for Cape Town on leg one.

There is the usual high percentage of New Zealand sailors, including one skipper, Mike "Moose" Sanderson on ABN AMRO 1. He says his team is on tenterhooks in the countdown.

Sanderson says the pressure is mounting after all the testing they have done and all the meetings they have sat in over the past couple of years.

He says all that comes down to the crunch over the next couple of days.

The fleet is due in Wellington in February.

- NEWSTALK ZB