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Might we see a lead change? Seb Josse (BT), racing neck and neck with Yann Elies (Generali) retains just a little sliver of an advantage, only 2.5 miles on tonight’s ranking, and Generali has been quicker between the last two polls, and 1.5 knots quicker over the last hour as the fastest of the top 10 on the 1hour ‘speed gun’ pol

In some respects it is academic, tonight is as much about preservation as it is about pressing hard to gain a few fractions of a knot. But it will be a fascinating night.

Michel Desjoyeaux has just informed his media team that he was surfing at 30.44 knots on Foncia with the pilot doing its job nicely (see photo).

Jean Pierre Dick has shed miles and two places to plunge south on what, for a time, looked like a solo mission. He is more than 180 miles south of the track taken by third placed Loïck Peyron on Gitana Eighty.

Mike Golding on Ecover 3 has passed Vincent Riou and is up to seventh, and gybed south at about 1800hrs GMT.

Only 3.7 miles separates fourth from sixth with those smiling duelling adversaries Le Cam and Bilou on the ’04 Lombard sister-ships need a crow bar to separate them, still locked together only 2.1 miles adrift in terms of DTF.

Not to be outdone, between seventh and ninth – southbound Ecover to BritAir’s much more northern track – there is only 9.2 miles.

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