#fastnet – Well up in the overall fleet, and lying side by side after just rounding the Fastnet Rock this morning are Stormy weather, the winner of the 1935 Fastnet and Dorade the winner of the 1931 Race. Presently they have exactly the same distance from the finish and are going at exactly the same speed.
Stormy weather rounded the rock 27 seconds ahead and both are charging back to the Scillies at over eight knots in a 20–knot westerly reach.
They have a chance of making up ground on their class leader, the French JPK 10.10 Alkaid 111, but are unlikely to catch the Flying JPK 10.80 Courier de Leon of Gery Trentesaux who presently holds the correc time lead at the Fastnet by an hour and a half.