“Those of the second night after the start were intense hours, with crazy winds and speeds,” reports Giovanni Soldini from aboard, “We touched peaks of 37 knots with waves of two to three metres. We are where we wanted to be, in control of our opponents, the road is long but we are not giving up.”
At the last update of 16:00 UTC on 10 January, the fleet of three MOD70s had already sailed over a thousand miles and were less than two thousand miles from the finish line.