Almost 25 days since they left Concarneau, France, Atlantik FT has arrived in St Barts, Guadeloupe. Phil and David crossed the line at 13:23:13 on May 15th finishing in a time on 24 days 23 hours and 13 seconds. Whilst not overly happy with their positions, the boys were happy with how they sailed the race and thrilled to have finally arrived in port and about to embark on a dream meal. Watch the video of the finish. See photos of the finish .

Phil Sharp is having a torrid time at sea, but managing to keep his chin up and look to the future.  The northerly route that the team chose to take
could have gone one way or other, could have kept them on the podium or sent them flying to the back of the fleet. One of the most unpredictable aspects of this sport is of course Mother Nature, which means the skippers are forced to gamble with her games.  Phil's nature is not one prone to following the rest of the pack, but to take challenges that he believes in. St Barts remains the carrot…..and not such a bad carrot…Phil’s ETA is some time on Thursday 15th May.

"Well the last couple of days have been mentally very tough for David and I as we have been stranded in ghostly light winds watching literally the whole of the rest of the fleet sail past us to the south:  We have been trying to push south, along with Goupe Celeos, who went on a more extreme southerly diversion which paid off to their advantage.  When you¨ve gone from being at the front of the fleet directly in touch with the leaders to the back it is extremely difficult to swallow and it is all too easy to slump into self pity over the situation.  We feel robbed to a certain extent, and both firmly believe that a lot of bad luck has come our way to contribute to our currently rubbish position. However the last thing we¨d ever want to do is end this race on such a downer.  David and I have proven to ourselves that we can make a very competive team out there, have been pushing hard every inch of the way, and following this overturn my frustrations are being taken out into pushing this damned boat as hard as ever towards the finish. It is for sure not meant to end like it is now, it's the last thing we deserve, so you can count that we'll be fighting until the end, until we cross that line and smell the toxic white caribbean rum with our names on it."