Malizia raises the bar

Incredibly, Team Malizia appears to have set a new 24 hour monohull distance record, edging past the mark set earlier Friday – 640.91 nautical miles – by Team Holcim-PRB, by the narrowest of margins.

Racing into the record-breaking conditions in third place, Team Malizia was the last of the leading trio to start piling up the miles.

But skipper Boris Herrmann and his team have kept pushing the pace in the strong winds and relatively flat seas and at approximately 2220 UTC, posted a 24-hour distance of 641.13 nautical miles, to raise the bar even further.