GBR9051T. Team White knight on Spirit of Venus as at 1200 hours. Cracking

sailing but this beat up Guadeloupe feels like its taking along time!

Still now within 15 miles of the la desirade turn. All on board now

looking forward to finish - still some way off and the last beat will be a

killer. Still managing to hold boat together but uphill struggle.

Desperately hoping to be in in under 4 days but now suspect 1900

prizegiving more realistic. Regards, Paul

55 miles to go - and the beers are ready and waiting!

Scarlet has had another great day of champagne sailing round the Island of

Antigua and chasing the best time possible. She is currently leading the CSA

class and the IRC Class 2, and is second in the IRC overall championships.

No news from the boat today but they must be very busy having the times of

their lives! The weather currently is perfect: blue skies, azure seas, stiff

breeze from the right direction, and beers already ordered, waiting at the

bar!

Scarlet is heading towards the last mark of the course called Redonda at

over 9 knots, and is now some 13 miles ahead of Smile and Wave. Once

rounding Redonda, Scarlet will then be beating again towards the finish

line, which means she will have to take a longer course as she can't sail a

direct route. At the moment, I believe her estimated time over the line

should be in about 9 hours time which is 2.30am Friday GMT/UTC and 10.30pm

Antiguan time..... yet again, another Sailing Logic yacht will finish a

major offshore race in the dark! It always happens!

News from the fleet today is that there has been 5 retirements to date,

everyone ok, mainly mechanical failures and problems. Next yacht to finish

will be Uxorious IV, a British 62 foot Swan, well done to them!

Another update to follow this evening....

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EH01 is on the reach up to Barbuda after a (long....) beat around the back

of Guadaloupe. Superb work by the crew meant we left 'Hound' standing on the

west side of the island in the wind shadow yesterday although Northern Child

stayed with us.

This reach is a tricky one for us as we dont cary asymetric kites and so are

a little slow on just a No. 2; Northern Chils with a big A sailis closing

the gap...

Cheers

Andy (skipper)

Scarlet Logic has had a great run overnight and are waking up this morning

to see Antigua ahead of them and only 129 miles to go to the finish line, so

we believe they should cross the line sometime later today.

They have scorched round Guadeloupe after their little wind hole experience,

and have pulled out a 9 mile lead over Smile and Wave, with whom they were

having a big tussle with yesterday. They have also managed to increase the

gap between themselves and Solent rivals EH01 to over 25 miles; we believe

Scarlet is the leading non-professionals yacht in the race which is still

great!

On the leader board, Scarlet is still leading IRC Class 1 by some margin but

had dropped to 5th in IRC Overall, as some of the yachts ahead have finished

and posted a time. It is not confirmed yet that the positions in IRC overall

are set in stone, so Scarlet could still better her 5th place at the

moment, so go, Scarlet, go!

We have not heard form the yacht today, which means that they must be

working hard trying to get every last tiny bit of speed out of her.......

Line honours went to the biggest yacht in the Race, Hetairos, who although

did not beat the record set 2 years ago by Rambler 100, still managed to get

round in under 3 days, which is awesome. With over 30 crew onboard, they

must have had to have had a very big galley!

Scarlet's victualling (food) was organised by Rosie Danby, girlfriend of

Ross, who spent days cooking and freezing meals so that the crew could eat

as well as possible whilst racing, without actually having to cook nmeals

from scratch. Good food is very important when racing offshore, not only for

energy but also for morale, so many thanks to Rosie for her efforts.

Allie Smith

Managing Director

Sailing Logic Ltd

Shamrock Quay Marina

Southampton

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We have finally arrived in Antigua at the finishing line. After a last beat of only 35 miles - seemed much longer, we are enjoying the sun warming the shoulders. The sun set light gives Antigua island and its hills wonderful colour of green. Wonderful race! Let's see the results later one tonight or tomorrow for the compensated time. Hurrah team Rn! #end

GBR9051T. As at 1200 antigua time Team White Knight enjoying a wild and

wet white sail reach south, currently abeam Nevis headed for Montserrat.

Saw Sleeper retiring towards antigua this morning but no one else in

sight. Last night rather emotional as GPS on raymarine declined to play,

so navigating round st barts and st martin with a hand held and

combination of paper and echarts! Not funny or fast. Not helped by the

heads going u/s -eventually clrared and cleaned by skipper this am but

only for a crew man to have a major mis hap! Said crew then needed to

reclean! Gps resurfaced this am for a couple of mins then decided to give

up the ghost again. Eventually came back to life a few minutes ago to

apparantly be working normally. Electronics! Best to all. Paul

Less than 40 miles to go to Redonda, last mark of the course before the finish. The picture needs no comment! Fast, wet, wild and still rock and roll! Go Rn Go! #end

Very high rock in the middle of those island. But it could be called an island especially as there is one single house built. Not sure if inhabited tough...

We rounded this point around noon under a typical tropical shower. Drenched in 2 minutes. We are now going up wind - everyone on the rail just like laundry drying in the sun. We can see Antigua our finish mark closer and closer as we have now less than 30 miles to go. What a race! Nearly there. Come on team Rn! #end

OK so after another hectic night we are battling the light winds off the

western side of Guadaloupe. Since the first mark off Barbuda we have been

having a great tussle with 'Hound' another yacht from our class (div 1) They

have been snapping at our heels the whole time but we've held them off

untilthe long windy reach from St Martinto here where they gotin front.

However some nifty kite work in anticipation of breeze under a cloud has us

back in front. Also joining our battle are some old sparring partners

Northern Child. They appeared in fron of us this mornig and we have hauled

them in until all three yacts are within shouting distance and battlig te

light winds to gain advantage as we head down to the island group of Le

Saints off Guadaloup.

Everyone is in great spirits ofnot a little knackered as wth only 9 crew we

have a 'bit on' with all the sail changes we have been doing.

It doesnt seem as if we are well up in class at present judging by the

position reports we have got but the battle continues!