Charlie Enright (USA) - 11th Hour Sailing (IMOCA)

We’re doing everything we can just to push while it matters. We’re not getting a lot of rest; when the opportunity to strike comes, you’re like ‘we’re going to just grab it.’ But it’s been good. It’s crazy trade wind sailing, so it’s push, push, push while we can. In a couple of days you can tell we’ll move over to the west,  which is looking pretty sketchy; slowly we’ll pull it back, but that’s the beauty of being in the west, you can kind of choose. Once you’re in the east it’s hard to get west, so we’re kind of just setting it all up. 

Jérémie and the Charal guys have been going a little higher , but, yes, the truth is no one knows (laughs). If they get out the other side everyone will be talking about it at the finish. That’s the goal (a podium finish) certainly, from where we are, catching the other two boats certainly isn’t far-fetched and even the Apivias and Charals of the world if the Doldrums covered up, but in 14-16 knots and calmer sea state conditions those guys are pretty untouchable. But it will be a fight for that last spot (on the podium). We’ll keep pushing, we have beent he whole time, the pace has been pretty insane and obviously I’ve been doing a lot of stuff on the boat that (laughs) - I haven’t done sailing like this before, it’s been good.