Mini 650 - Mini-Transat - Leg 1 - Day 5, the Swiss

François Jambou FRA is now the sole leader in the Protos, 40nm ahead of a trio with Axel Tréhin FRA, Tanguy Bouroullec FRA and Marie Gendron FRA, the only woman in the Protos fleet. ----- Ambrogio Beccaria ITA is back on top of the Series Minis, 5nm in front of Julien Letissier FRA und Guillaume L'hostis FRA. Meanwhile, Scow (round-bow) Series designs are racing successfully as well, such as Florien Quenot FRA on 7th and Paul Cloarec FRA on 12th. Mathieu Gobet SUI on an older generation Mini is delivering a solid performance in the first third of the fleet on rank 34. His backlog was 144nm this morning UTC. ----- Fresh rear winds provided for a fast race yesterday stretching the fleet over a considerable distance along the southern Portuguese coast at half-distance of leg one with 750nm left to the Canaries. ----- The race tracker and the daily news. ----- The first to abandon the race was Pavel Roubal CZE loosing the transom with the distress buoy. Rescued by helicopter, he is safe. The report.