Race time: 13 days, 3 hours.
Position: 2,920 miles to the Cape of Good Hope.
Ranking: 1600hrs (French time)
The Doldrums can continue to bite long after you have left them and Bernard Stamm (Cheminées Poujoulat) revealed on Friday that he has been struggling to keep pace in the lead group because he has been unable to use his genoa.
The large genoa sail would be the one out of the nine allowed in a skipper's sail wardrobe he would be using in these reaching conditions, with the boat heeled over 30 degrees.











