We had a Mobile phone call from a very tired Leslie this morning. The horn of the Royal Western Yacht Club finish line sounded as they crossed the finish line at 01:44:45 this morning under spinnaker in 10kn of wind and heavy rain. It felt good to have finished and relief that the last long few days were over. They have enjoyed the race and have been very pleased with Streamline's performance.

Since yesterday evening they had up to 14kn of wind and seemed to be perpetually sail changing from jib to Code 0 to spinnaker to jib and back to spinnaker. Streamline slowly pulled away from Vijaya around Start Point and crossed the finish line 2h 34m 46s ahead of them. Unfortunately not quite enough to stay ahead on handicap. Vijaya takes 2nd place to Elixir and Streamline takes 3rd by only 1h 13m after 2000 miles of racing! This last leg has been one of fickle winds and strong tidal gates which allows yachts behind to catch up with those who have been slowed up ahead. Everyone bunches up and benefits those with a lower handicap. We will have to wait for a few more finishers to finalise Streamline's position in the overall IRC 

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