No Change at the Top
The leaderboard remains unchanged since the last six hourly position report with Brasil1 (Torben Grael) remaining at the top, Pirates of the Caribbean (Paul Cayard) chasing closely behind in second and ABN AMRO TWO (Sebastien Josse) in third.
The boats are continuing on port tack, heading south of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland as they seek the northerly winds of the low pressure weather system that will bring the reaching conditions these boats excel in.
After their earlier misfortunes with lack of wind, movistar (Bouwe Bekking) appear to have found the breeze and are now matching the rest of the fleet for boats speed.
Ericsson (Neal McDonald) are showing a consistent performance and they have increased their lead over ABN AMRO ONE (Mike Sanderson) to 11 miles.
However, the difficult conditions at the start and four days of slow upwind sailing mean that as the fleet go into day five there is still a long way to go with plenty of opportunities for changes on the leaderboard.
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