VOR: Silver fleet saga

Finishing at 13:04.47 local time, fourth place for Paul Cayard and the Pirates of the Caribbean crew breaks their consistent run of offshore podiums which began with their third place into Wellington and leaves them with just four and a half points in hand over Brasil 1. While Cayard and his crew made no major errors all the way around the painstakingly slow 1,500 mile circumnavigation of Britain and Ireland, initially they reeled in the bigger deficits but across the top of Scotland a matter of forty miles quickly turned to a deficit of sixty-five and then over 100 miles.