With only 23 days to go, Sophie Hetherington is on the homeward journey. Having had a 4 day stop off in New York, all the yachts are heading towards Ireland across a rather icy sea.

Sophie is now officially a circumnavigator of the world – At 43 deg. 80. 890′ W is the line of longitude she crossed last Sunday, and is the line that passes through Rio de Janeiro, so Sophie has now crossed every line of longitude in the world!

In terms of this leg of the race… it hasn’t gone too well. The wind died 24 hours earlier than expected and it seems that the wind was lost for Mission Performance,  as a consequence of this loss of wind they have dropped back into 12th place, but the crew are hopeful with 1,200 miles to go they can crawl back up the leader board again. It has been an exciting few days, icebergs have been a potential issue, so an ‘ice watch’ was set up; News spread across the fleet that ‘growlers’ had been sited by other boats, these are icebergs that sit just below the surface, thankfully Sophie and the rest of the crew didn’t see any and have passed safely out of the danger zone, sailing not far from the site where the Titanic sank over 100 years ago.

If you would like to support Sophie on the final leg of her epic voyage and help her to raise funds for us then please click the link which will take you to her Just Giving page