Overnight Wednesday night (Feb. 8), the race shifted into a speed contest to the northeast as one by one, the fleet gybed out of the depths of the Roaring 40s to point directly towards Cape Town.

Within an hour, all five teams had gybed to the east and pointed their bows towards Africa. It’s a very close race now with 11th Hour Racing, Team Holcim-PRB, Biotherm, and Team Malizia within ...

Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron staff Mike Middleton and Mark Dingley, were filming at the race’s top mark when the incident happened. Visser gybed, and ended up face down in the water. According to ...