© Photo Richard Konkolski
© Photo Richard Konkolski
By the end of the day both Class I boats slowed down below 10 knots speed. Soldini had 1294 miles to go to Charleston with second placed Thiercelin 422 miles back. In Class I, Giovanni Soldini had slowed to 10.7 knots and still had 1,388 miles to Charleston. Thiercelin should get better wind conditions during the weekend and he could cut some miles from Soldini's lead.
Soldini's Fila © Photo Billy Black
Over 550 miles back behind Thiercelin, Garside was leading Class II fleet. He was doing almost 0.5 knots better than Mouligne, who finally got out of the Doldrums. Mouligne happily reported: "I am moving fast with an Easterly wind of 20 knots. Not much sun and a very wet ride but it's pure pleasure moving at 13 knots in the right direction after being virtually becalmed for 3 days."
Cray Valley © Photo Billy Black
Viktor Yazykov also gained some speed. He left the Doldrums behind his stern and was doing over 10 knots. His departure from Doldrums was not easy, as he described in his email: "What a night was the last one. At the sunset we have been caught by some small black cloud. It only looked like small. Four hours of gusty wind, wind shifts, tacks and jibes, crush jibes and rain like a waterfall. Broken lazy jacks, boom crashed to the cabin roof, pitch dark night. Fully reefed mainsail was too big even to sail downwind. Ended up with such a thunderstorm I have never experienced at sea before. We did sail fifteen hundred miles already without a pilot at this leg in addition to six thousand of the first leg and three and a half thousand from Madeira to Charleston."
© Photo Richard Konkolski
| Place | Skipper | Boat | Latitude | Longitude | Dist. to go | Speed | Dist. to first | Time |
| 1 | Soldini | Fila | 20 00N | 060 12W | 1294 | 9.7 | 0 | 2140 |
| 2 | Thiercelin | Somewhere | 14 16N | 055 43W | 1716 | 9.3 | 422.1 | 2140 |
| Place | Skipper | Boat | Latitude | Longitude | Dist. to go | Speed | Dist. to first | Time |
| 1 | Garside | Magellan Alpha | 08 55N | 050 33W | 2158 | 13.5 | 0 | 2144 |
| 2 | Mouligne | Cray Valley | 06 44N | 047 55W | 2361 | 13.1 | 203.7 | 2144 |
| 3 | Yazykov | Wind of Change | 04 21N | 040 40W | 2772 | 10.1 | 614.2 | 2144 |
| 4 | Petersen | No Barriers | 02 17S | 038 16W | 3153 | 5.4 | 995.2 | 2144 |
| 5 | Saito | Shuten-dohji II | 02 13S | 037 12W | 3195 | 4.5 | 1037.1 | 2144 |
| 6 | Hunter | Paladin II | 03 58S | 035 18W | 3349 | 6.9 | 1191.8 | 2144 |
| 7 | Van Liew | Balance Bar | 11 25S | 034 18W | 3852 | 7.9 | 1694/5 | 2144 |
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