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The maverick march of Jean Le Cam (VM Matériaux) continues as the first skipper to choose to leave Madeira to starboard, along with Marc Guillemot (Safran) tailing some 50 miles behind him.

The fleet is splitting either side, but Le Cam’s tactic continues to pay, and rather than lose through the archipelago he is returning to the fray with a hot angle and is up to third place.
Loïck Peyron carries his lead into the night with Gitana Eighty 8.2 miles ahead of Jean- Pierre (Paprec-Virbac 2), but Peyron was quickest on the ‘instantaneous’ speed this evening.

“ I am not unhappy with my position.” Le Cam remarked in today’s radio vacs, and he appears to have good reason to be content with his gains. He is coming back with a nice angle, converging back to the rhumb line with speed.
Of the leading trio, Paprec-Virbac has the most westerly position while Vincent Riou (PRB) and Armel Le Cléac’h (Brit Air) mine the offshore flank.

Otherwise it is just steady sailing, which does not mean time to relax. Many skippers commented today how gusty the breeze is, running at max power – setting sail for the lulls – means there is no time for inattention.

For Mike Golding on Ecover 3, a small gain on the leaders, he is doing a good job of holding Brian Thompson on Bahrain Team Pindar, gaining three miles.
The British girls are diverging in their thinking. Sam Davies has gone out west, Dee Caffari is doing her thing and looks to be lining up to go to the east of Madeira.
 

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