During the last 24 hour I have made good to the finish a distance of 164 miles. Now, considering that I have not been sailing in a straight line to the finish, I have actually made, over the ground, a distance of 168 miles, not bad! And, best of all, the distance between me and both other Dutch competitors has remained the same, although Jager is 15% larger than De Franschman, and Vijaya even 25%. De Franschman likes beam reaches, as we had the last 24 hours!

Now we are preparing for a night's fighting against a southwester. I am determined not to lose much ground on Jager, but Dick clearly also.

Very interesting to see is the fight between British Beagle and Tamarind; Marco has to finish about 15 hours ahead of Mervyn to beat him on handicap, and he is sailing his sox off! But don't underestimate Mervyn, he's tough and shrewd... They're neck to neck for the last few days.

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