British Series class Mini sailor Pip Hare  has elevated herself from ninth place in the series boats at the last sched yesterday up to third at 0600 today.

This morning the leaders in the Series class within the Charente Maritime Bahia Transat 6.50 (Mini Transat) are to the north of La Coruna. If Pip Hare has done well, then the new leader, Eric Llull on Cocoa Noble, has done even better overnight having been in 12th place at the last sched yesterday, while second placed Davy Beaudart on Innovea Environnement, yesterday's leader, is on a track marginally further north of Llull and Hare.

While the Series leaders are 30-40 miles north of La Coruna, on a dangerous-looking flier is China's former Green Dragon media crewman Guo Chuan on Vasa who is now more than 50 miles northwest of the leaders with substantially more westing in than the rest of the fleet.

Despite the GRIB files showing there to be 10 knots of southerly breeze, the boat speeds indicate there is less than this with most of the fleet averaging just 1-2 knots between the last two scheds. We hope this picks up as they are shortly to encounter the Cape Finisterre Traffic Separation Scheme and will have all manner of ships bearing down on them.

 

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