Barcelona World Race

On Day 18 the entire fleet is in the Southern Hemisphere and Paprec Virbac 2 is back in the lead. 2nd place by 12 miles is PRB. Paprec's Foxall explain the situation, "We are going well, we are taking the inside of the curve on PRB, generally going a little bit of an inside turn and in the classing taking the lead, although there is a fifty mile difference between us, they are 50 miles to leeward, I don’t think its going to be too much of a problem, they probably have more wind."

3rd place Veolia and 4th place Hugo Boss share the highest current speed at 15.8 knots. Hugo Boss' Alex Thoms is quite happy with his ride, "Finally we have found the conditions in which Hugo Boss revels, 18+ knots of wind from the beam."

Hugo Boss as seen from Delta Dore

As the boats get past 20 degrees south they are changing to east south east courses to skirt the high and head for the Cape of Good Hope.

Educacion Sin Frontears is last, 827 miles back, but crossed the equator in fine spirits, "We have passed the equator and opened a bottle of Gramona in celebration. I dedicated two chocolates to Neptune, so that he will look out for us in the Southern Hemisphere."