All OK on board the Cheminées Poujoulat. After one night raised the wood to fix one of the skates of the greater candle, Bernard Stamm continues recovering and increasing speed, goes to 18 knots, as rapidly as possible to eliminate the 1,300 miles that separate to him of Cape Horn. But Swiss knows that any thing is possible in one regata like this one before arriving at Norfolk. “Still it is not nor halfway of this stage”, to Stamm have left 8,000 miles to arrive at Norfolk, “so we must be careful because it always can have breakage”

The repair took 8 working hours to him in which it only lost 17 miles of difference with respect to the Japanese. It warned the organization so that they were not scared of the position signals that would receive by satellite, since the boat throughout remained to the drift that time.

To 1,475 miles of Bernard Stamm, Kojiro continuous Shiraishi descending, moving by the latitude South 55º and sailing right to 60 miles to the north of the line of Antarctica convergence, the frost zone of water that surrounds the circle by Antarctica.

 
955 miles more back, who is enjoying more and more fast navigation which they allow these latitudes, is the landlord of the PAKEA. Unai Basurko, that has crossed 224 miles in last the 24 hours, does not have another desire that to descend the possible maximum to the South, because as said this morning, “there there is more wind and you cross less distance”. Basurko has moved away 154 miles of the New Zealand landlord Graham Dalton, that, with the unique Open 50 that competes in this regata, is demonstrating to be a tenacious navigator that it wants to trench a pending subject: the return to the world that could not finish in the 2002-2003 Around Alone.
 
In 5ª position, to 67 miles of Dalton, Sir Robin Knox-Johnston and its SAGA INSURANCE is to 600 miles to the east of New Zealand. Sailing completely without information, without weather data, Sir Robin looks for the way through the Austral Ocean trusting its instinct, evaluating the time thanks to its many years of experience in the sea.