Skipper's log: Ian Lipinski (France), Crédit Mutuel (Class40)

We can’t wait to arrive because it’s been a bit of a long beat since the Doldrums. It hasn’t happened much but on the bright side is the sea is a bit more friendly today. It’s very hot, the sky is full of cumulus, we have between 13-15 knots of southeast wind and we’re under genoa and mainsail. We think we’re going well, there’s no reason for us to change it, but we are still watching the rankings every hour! 

We’re 30 miles from the coast to avoid container traffic, we saw it around Fernando de Noronha. There was not that much there, but we’re redoubling our vigilance to avoid anything that could reverse our positino. We crossed paths with Gitana! It was funny when we saw a boat arriving at 35 knots on the AIS, we said ‘se said that has to be an Ultime!’ Yesterday, Adrien made bread and today he’s making a crumble! The routing shows us arriving the day after tomorrow in the morning very early, around 4/5 UTC, ie around 1am local time at the entrance to the Bay of All Saints!