"I'm in good shape: I've changed my watermaker. The previous one gave me 'disgusting' water, and I was starting to feel physical ill. Together with the team we decided to switch on the spare watermaker, and now I am really feeling better.

There are a lot of tactical choices to be made now. There are still a lot of uncertainties about what we're going to face tomorrow evening, this long cold front. It can go well or badly. On the downward journey, by approaching it from the south, I had negotiated it well. But the wind is all messy behind it, it is upwind until it gets going. My foils are in good condition and would like to continue to climb slowly and reach the doldrums pleased with the choices.

After the conditions we had in the Southern Ocean, sailing here is like sailing in the Gulf of Morbihan... It's very calm, the sea is flat... The funny thing is that you don't have this vision of the Atlantic at all during the descent. I'm getting back into 100% racing mode. I've been sailing downwind for 24 hours now and 've found good speeds, which is really cool.

There's going to be a transition in upwind conditions soon, and I'll have to readjust again. In the Atlantic, it changes all the time. Here, everything goes faster than in the South, where you have time to anticipate, to prepare. Here, every mile counts. The conditions allow me to be at 100% of the boat's potential. I'm on a roll, but I have a makeshift repair to do on the mainsail and the electronics that are fragile and give me a scare at least once a day. I want to remain cautious. There is not only the race to manage, but I think it's the same case on all the boats.

I can’t quite get over my whole journey. When I look at what I've been through since I left Macquarie Island, I feel like it is surreal. I had not thought I would back to the group I'm in. I am extremely happy, and it feels like I am in a daydream. It gives me a lot of hope for the future.

There isn't much fun left in the eating, it is just a source of food. But I'm totally fixated on the positions, completely addicted, even. I'm waiting for the next rankings like a kid waiting for Santa Claus. I look at the positions of the others, trying to find out how to get closer to them. I've never experienced this pleasure, especially not four years ago, maybe a little bit at the beginning of the race this year. I count the miles that separate me from Thomas and Damien, I check their course... Apart from that, I listen to podcasts, notably Historiquement Votre Yours, on Europe, I have finished almost all the Affaires Sensibles. There is the full works of Brassens left to listen to and then lots of messages from the family, children, Servane, friends. And all the press articles which I receive daily.”