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"We see a significant change between leaving Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning in easier conditions, and this was also the preference of the majority of the teams," commented Volvo Ocean Race CEO Knut Frostad, coming straight out of a meeting with the six teams' skippers, navigators and weather experts in Auckland.

Nandor Fa (Hun) and Conrad Colman (NZL) crossed the longitude of Cape Horn (67º 17 '35 W) at 0613hrs UTC (0713hrs France, 0313hrs in Chile) this Monday morning.

Pre-event favourites The Wave, Muscat win on home waters for the third consecutive year, narrowly denying the Danish SAP Extreme Sailing Team their first ever Act victory, after a down to the wire final double points race shoot out at the Extreme Sailing Series Act 2, Muscat.

The Team SCA girls must love inshore racing - after winning the In-Port Race in Abu Dhabi back in January, they won The New Zealand Herald In-Port Race Auckland as Cyclone Pam approaches.

Cheminées Poujoulat's are still leaders the Barcelona World Race but the ever tenacious duo of Guillermo Altadill and José Munoz on Neutrogena are rapidly closing the gap at the rate of over 100 miles a day.

SAP Extreme Sailing Team showcased a winning formula on day two at the Extreme Sailing Series in Muscat, Oman, taking four bullets out of eight races in the shifty 15 knot north-easterly breeze and lumpy two-metre swell, that put a premium on boat handling.

The opening day of the Extreme Sailing Series, Act 2 Muscat, delivered an afternoon of perfect racing conditions, as the eight-strong Extreme 40 fleet flew around the coastal racecourse in Muscat, Oman, relishing the North Easterly breeze that filled in from 8 - 16 knots.