Hello everybody, it's the Almighty Qualified Person on board Zhuhai. Well, it's been an interesting start with the fleet splitting into two distinct groups, one going east for miles in the right direction, the other going south-east to pick up the Gulf Stream. We went for the latter and enjoyed, after a fairly breezy start to the day, a champagne Mother Watch day (a wind hole) which after all the excitement of the Le Mans Start does tend to leave the crew and the sails a little deflated. Luckily after much sail changing (which the crew did flawlessly) and all of the other faffing around that comes with clawing your way out of the blasted things, we're making good progress towards Derry~Londonderry again! It's early days into our last long race so let's see how it goes...

All the best from the crew, Patrick and myself.

Have a great day!