"The breeze is easing down a bit now and I think we are in for a quiet 24 hours. I will pretty much just keep along this route but really I have to wait and see if this file is right. It has me staying on starboard. There was an option to split to the north but I really could not see it as viable. I think we are both sailing to the corner, that’s the preferred option and I think Jean [Le Cam] is doing the same. I don’t think there will be any surprises there, but you never know.
I’m pretty much focused on the EC model because it is more detailed. It shows a corridor of breeze, a little band of pressure. But it is going back and forwards between Jean [Le Cam] and I. The models do conflict as to what can happen. It could fill from the south and if it did I’d do well from that. This has been some of the best sailing, the best racing I have had. I’d love to say I’m enjoying it but to be honest I just want to get in and get finished. I have pretty much run out of everything. I have food left but there are none of the niceties that make it work, however, I have enough calories.
Our ETA is a bit variable at the moment, depending on how much of a stoppage we get.”
