5th place overnight consolidated

The 06:00 schedules this morning confirmed JAMAICA had retained her 5th place. With sailing speeds on a par with the rest of the fleet it would appear that the weekend's problems which included two ripped sails and two journeys up the mast in 40 knot winds have been put behind them.

JAMAICA is only 38 miles off the lead where Hull and New York are separated by just 1 mile. Glasgow and Durban are 3rd and 4th and firmly in JAMAICA's sights. We are currently 20 miles ahead of Western Australia.

As the graphic above shows the teams will at some point today tack to the West, roughly following the white line, for the last push towards Qingdao port. With over 400 miles to go there are still plenty of opportunities for the leader board to change, particularly if any of the boats ahead suffer similar misfortunes to the ones which led to our descent this weekend.

This has been a very hard race with both crew and boat battered by the strong conditions. May they return safely and look forward to some well earned R&R when they arrive in Qingdao on Thursday or Friday.