Round Bishop's Rock

Cat and mouse game continues in the 1000 Milles de Calais

Positions at 0554GMT

Pos	Boat	Lat	Long	SOG	COG	DTF	DTL
1	BONDUELLE	49 59.72' N	6 42.76' W	10.5	309	603.6	0
2	ECOVER	49 58.32' N	6 41.88' W	11.1	304	604.8	1.2
3	VIRBAC	49 53.00' N	6 32.04' W	11.3	292	613.1	9.4
4	PRB	49 53.56' N	6 28.88' W	10.6	297	614.4	10.8
5	ARCELOR DUNKERQUE	49 28.40' N	5 23.52' W	10.6	285	664.1	60.4

The cat and mouse game between Jean le Cam's new Bonduelle and Mike Golding and his team on board Ecover continues in the Celtic Sea as in the early hours of this morning the leaders rounded Bishop's Rock to the west of the Scilly Isles. At the 01:40GMT position report Bonduelle was 2.2 miles ahead, but this morning Ecover has pulled back a mile.

The boats have around 140 miles to go before they get to round the Fastnet Rock which lies on a course of 300degM from their current position.

At present satellite wind radar charts show there to be around 10 knots of breeze from the NNW while the wind at Sevenstones Longship was 13 knots from 350deg. The boats are under the influence an area of high pressure to the west of Ireland that looks to remain fairly static over the next 24 hours. This area of high pressure is forecast to slowly move east but indications are at present that the boats should be able to round the Rock in pressure before this happens.