Gosport's Rory Gillard and his Cockney crew on London Clipper had a great 12-hour run in the current leg of the Clipper 2003 race.

The yacht covered 186 miles on a northerly passage towards the Agulhas current bound for Cape Town, South Africa.

Fellow Gosport sailor Ross Daniel, skipper of New York Clipper, is holding onto his well-established third place and continuing to make more of a Southerly course towards the next waypoint at Port Elizabeth.

Race 12 Positions (yesterday)

Bristol 450.6 (nautical miles to finish), 2 Jersey 451, 3 London 608, 4 New York 617, 5 Cape Town 636, 6 Liverpool, 650 7 Glasgow 653, 8 Hong Kong 685.