Other than a brief period around 2100 CEST last night when that land breeze saw the fleet accelerate to speeds over 10 knots at times, progress has remained painfully slow for all the teams. It’s been really hot here and at night time the air cools and it gets heavier and it kind of tumbles down the valleys and out to sea. “The fleet is not totally stopped and we are moving in the right direction, which is nice. By early afternoon CEST on Monday, the fleet had compressed once again in a wind hole southeast of Nice. “It’s beautiful and the eclipse is disappearing so you can see the moon appearing bit by bit,” described Holcim – PRB skipper Rosalin Kuiper (NED), gazing upwards.