“Today is a very special day, as our very own Mohsin Al Busaidi has become a father,” reported Mark Covell this morning. Mohsin rang home and spoke to his wife Sarah back in Oman who broke the news to him that he was a father to a beautiful baby girl, called Thura. “Mother and baby are doing well,” says Mohsin. “As soon as he got off the satellite phone he humbly apologized to all the crew for being a little anxious and pre-occupied over the last few days. “I am happy now and you have the old Mohsin back. I am a father, I am so happy, I don’t need to worry any more.”  They now need fair winds and good weather to deliver them home to Oman, still more than 2,700 miles to go, and unite the new dad with mother and baby! Read below the race news about the start of the Leg 5, and visit the photo gallery…