Brian Thompson (Bahrain Team Pindar) is expected to reach the podium at around 09h40 GMT

Brian finishes on the bowsprit of his Open 60, punching the air with both fists, finish time is 08:31:55 GMT in fifth place, race time is 98 days 20 hours 29 minutes 55 seconds.

DISTANCE THEORETICAL : 24 840 MILLES
AVERAGE FOR THE THEORETICAL COURSE : 10.47 NOEUDS
 
REAL DISTANCE SAILED : 28 700 MILLES
REAL AVERAGE : 12.10 NOEUDS

Time difference from Michel Desjoyeaux:  14 days, 17 hours and  20 minutes

And so Brian has made his final tack and heads into the sunshine steering from time to time, rolling out his bigger headsail with the Kingdom of Bahrain logo on it, just less than five minutes of his race, he is pointed at the line.  The race committee announce his imminent arrival in fifth place.

Brian is just enjoying steering the boat himself now, about 2.5 miles from the finish, keeping his Open 60 in the groove and powered up as the breeze rises and falls a little more as he gets closer to the coast. He is just checking his angles to the line as the sun comes back out from behind the cloud.

And the security boats start to make some space for Brian to tack now, in fact his solent has seen better days with the upper leech split for about three metres, and the luff tape separated and flapping in the breeze. You can imagine that releif will be Brian's overwhelming emotion when he gets across the line, and with his keel problem  this finish cannot come quick enough.

And Brian is making ready for his final tack up on the deck of  Bahrain Team Pindar, making eight knots now as the sun disappears for a few minutes. So four different designers for the top six boats, two Farr, two Finot Conq, one VPLP/Verdier and this powerful Juan K design.