Morning! Well this is more like it! Sun, surf and a flat boat! The front came over with a vengeance last night, initially we just had a big lightning show with very little wind, then the grand finale came with torrential rain, massive cracks of thunder, forked lightning coming down close to the boat...all very exciting stuff.

Now we are making good speed, not quite directly where we want to go but a forecast favourable wind shift later on should solve matters there.

All the crew are good and we have been working very hard to claw our way back up the leaderboard and now it looks like it will be a close contest between a handful of boats all the way to the finish.

TTFN