Despite having an exhausting start to the race with really strong winds, Phil Sharp rang in this morning in an excitable mood. Thoroughly enjoying the challenge of racing against big names in the industry like Jean Le Cam, he was pleased with their position and hoping that their more Westerly option could pay off over the course of the next week.

"We've just had a pretty rough night (Monday). And it seems to take an eternity to get round Finisterre and the last thing you want to be doing is upwind. We've been doing it all night, so we're knackered! Some of the others are racing further inshore, but we've taken a more Western option, which may or may not pay off! It hasn't done as much as we'd hoped in the night as the others may have got a shift off the coast, but they may also get nailed by the current - don't wish them harm but I hope they get slowed by it!"