Bernard Stamm and his Cheminées Poujoulat are still aboard the Marion Dufresne, which is continuing her mission as supply vessel in the Indian Ocean. She is currently at Amsterdam Island, 750 miles north of the Kerguelens. They will be finishing their voyage in early January in St Denis (Reunion Island). As for Jean-Baptiste Dejeanty, he has almost completed his voyage. The skipper of Maisonneuve was only 285 miles from Port Elizabeth (South Africa) yesterday evening. Finally, Unaï Basurko (Pakea Bizkaïa) intends to sail all the way home by himself. He is heading for Bilbao, and yesterday was 260 miles south of the Cape Verde Islands.
 

The frigate HMAS Arunta arrived in Fremantle this morning at 3h10 GMT. He was immediately transferred to the Royal Perth Hospital.

Jean-Baptiste Epron's declaration after a short conversation with Yann Eliès in Perth this morning: «The Arunta moored up just after 3. We spent five minutes with Yann before he was taken off. He is in a suit which protects his chest and leg. He is talking very slowly due to the medicine. The medical team are with him and the captain came to say goodbye. Yann thanked him and they agreed to see each other, when he is better. The ambulance was waiting just outside. there were 6 or 7 in the team to take him off. You can tell that he cannot stand moving and is still suffering in spite of the medicine. I think he was pleased to see us and was waiting to go to hospital. It's not easy leaving him like that. With Philippe (editor: Laot, Team Generali's technical director), we'll be setting off in a few hours to recover his boat. That will be one thing less to worry about.»
 

The frigate HMAS ARUNTA arrived in Fremantle at 3h GMT and moored at Victoria Quay. Yann Eliès was taken off and is currently being transferred to the hospital.
 

Yann Eliès's boat is due to be recovered in the next few days by Philippe Laot and Jean-Baptiste Epron from the Generali team. The two men are due to arrive in Australia tomorrow, where they will use a motor boat to get to the area and then sail the boat back with a short-handed crew. The 60-foot boat is currently drifting northwards, 700 miles south of the coast of Australia. She still has the same sails up (three reefs in the mainsail and staysail) and is equipped with two beacons indicating her position.
 

On 12th December, the race committee was informed by the Race Directors that Fondation Océan Vital had not passed the Atlantic Gate as laid down in Race Instructions. On 10th December, the boat approached the line to around 10 nautical miles before moving away again. Informed by the race committee, the skipper firstly declared he believed he had crossed the line, but was later to recognise that due to a software problem, that may not have been the case. The Jury today concluded that Fondation Océan Vital had not left the gate to starboard and although there was no intent to deceive, Raphaël Dinelli has broken article 3 of the Notice of Race as modified by the rider 4, and appendix 3a of the Race Instructions. He is therefore being given a time penalty of five hours that he will have to carry out according to 26.4 (h) of Race Instructions and before reaching 20°S in the Atlantic.

Over the past 24 hours, Michel Desjoyeaux (Foncia) sailed the greatest distance towards the finish. Between 19h yesterday and this evening, the leader, currently 11785.5 miles from the finish, covered 375.9 miles.