And then there were six. It strikes us as unlikely that it will be worth salvaging Team Vestas Wind from the remote mid-Indian Ocean reef which claimed her at the weekend.

There was considerable egg on the face of the Team Vestas Wind crew when yesterday afternoon (UTC), during the night their time, they ran their VO65 hard ground on a reef in the middle of the India

You can't help be impressed by how close the one designs 65 footers are making this Volvo Ocean Race.

It has been a busy time of manoeuvring and sail changes overnight for the Volvo Ocean Race crews as, contrary to what the GRIBs indicate, the wind has been shifting dramatically.

Ian Walker, navigator Simon Fisher and the crew of Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing did a masterful job negotating the west side of the high pressure system that has since slunk off to the southeast