After that Majan passed the first Cape of five in the early hours of Monday morning, the 105-ft multihull is now approaching its first stopover in the Maldives at high speed and the crew expect to arrive tomorrow: “Like a fast train on a downhill run, we are coming in with pace! The boat hums and whistles to the key of “C”, it’s like she’s on that train but listening to her own iPod, nodding her head with the beat and smiling from hull to hull,” said Mark Covell.

This first 1400nm leg has proven to be a tough shakedown for the brand new trimaran: “We knew about a small crack in the deck just behind the mast rotate pad eye. There was also a small grub screw to hold it all together that was also dipped in Loctite. It just goes to show that our night of shaking, rocking and rolling took its toll. The shock loads that shudder through the hull and rig are huge. If the outriggers were solid the boat would break up, but like an aircrafts flexible wing, we bend and bow with the moving waves…”.