While Cheyenne suffers with lack of wind, Geronimo further down the round the world course, is clocking up the miles and is now three days ahead of the record.

She’s now covered 10,000 nautical miles and one third of the course. As Day 23 it was 8th day of covering over 500 miles – 538 to be precise, at an average sped of 22.43 knots point-to-point. Her lead over the current record at the longitude of Cape Leeuwin is now over 1,200 sea miles.

At the end of her 23rd day, Geronimo was at the same longitude (81°E) as Bruno Peyron on Day 26 of his 2002 record-breaking attempt, but the trimaran is rather further south and therefore theoretically on a faster track. However, the crew didn’t want to talk too much about their lead yesterday evening: “It’s obviously better to be ahead of the record than behind it, but it’s arriving ahead of the record in Brest that really matters…”