The mainsheet creaks on deck, we’ve been sailing fully powered the whole day, really focused on our watches. Little by little we climbed to where we are now.

You could tell the guys were exhausted after hardly having any sleep. “We’ve done more sail changes in one night than in the whole race”, said Carlos as he came down for breakfast.

Today, for the first time in more than a week, we have no boats on our AIS system. It feels weird, we know they are somewhere near, but we don’t know exactly where.

We’ve been having problems with transmissions on board and as a consequence we can’t get phone calls, nor the weather reports, neither send photos nor video. We can only send out short texts through the Sat-C.

Guillermo Altadill’s hand is swollen and recovery is slow. : “It’s amazing how difficult life on board with one hand,” said Willy.

Ñeti was standing on the leeward side and goes “check this out Fran we have a new little window”.