Just two miles separate the top four VOR boats as they head towards Annapolis on the sixth leg of the race

News Corp (pictured left) is now in second place in the sixth leg of the VOR, just one mile behind illbruck who took the lead from Assa Abloy yesterday afternoon.

Further back in the fleet SEB has managed to edge narrowly ahead of Tyco over the last few hours and has started to close the gap on the leaders.

Team djuice is still holding onto seventh position, narrowly ahead of Amer Sports Too – both over 30 miles behind the race leader.

Position Report, Day 3, 0412 GMT

1 ILBK

2 NEWS (1 mile behind leader)

3 AART (2 miles behind leader)

4 AONE (2 miles behind leader)

5 TSEB (21 miles behind leader)

6 TYCO (25 miles behind leader)

7 DJCE (32 miles behind leader)

8 ATOO (33 miles behind leader)