The race
in brief

Eagle-eyed viewers of the tracker will notice that 11th Hour Racing stopped and retraced its tracks around 1700 UTC on Sunday, November 2. The reason for this was because the seal on our liferaft had been accidentally broken. As soon as we discovered what had happened, we informed the Race Directors who gave us a 30-minute penalty in accordance with the Sailing Instructions. To execute the penalty, we sailed through an imaginary line, and then 30 minutes later, passed back through that same line, in the same direction. It’s frustrating as we have been fighting hard to keep up with Charal, but it was important that we cleared the penalty as early as possible, got back to full speed, and to our battle at the front of the fleet.

The race will continue in a shorter format than planned: the detour via Ascension has been canceled, and the San Pedro and San Paolo archipelago will therefore be their last waypoint before reaching Martinique.

The ETA for the large trimarans is now set for November 6 in Fort-de-France.