PlayStation ahead of record...

....after second night - Starboard daggarboard takes a knock, but no damage identified.

Skipper Steve Fossett's 125' (38m) maxi-cat PlayStation and her 10 man crew pressed on at 25-30 kts through their second night at sea, after a first day total distance of nearly 600 nm was achieved. By 0600GMT this morning, Sunday (36 hours 40 mins at sea) the distance was 931.64nm.

Navigator Stan Honey reported on Saturday: "For our first 24 hours we made a good 595.4 miles, at an average speed of 24.77 knots. This puts us 155 miles ahead of Jet Services, if we make the (certainly inaccurate) assumption that she sailed a constant speed.

For now we are able to stay ahead of the gale that we departed in front of. We are holding about a constant pressure of 1012 mb. The sky remains clear and the sea flat, which makes for astonishing sailing in 32 knots of true wind speed, sailing at 32 knots of boat speed.

We hit something earlier today with the starboard daggerboard, but were not able to identify any damage with our underwater scope."

PlayStation co-designer and crewman Gino Morrelli added: "We still enjoy rather flat seas and nice sunny weather - and not to cool at night yet. We are looking forward to another nice night tonight, with most of a full moon to light up our way.

We still are weaving our way through ships and some oil rig platforms today. Most of the guys we pass can not believe we are a sail boat going 30kts.. I saw a couple sets of Atlantic dolphin, but we are going so fast they do not chase us."