If Monday’s story of the 44th Rolex Middle Sea Race was the first multihull to finish, Tuesday was definitely monohull line honours.

At 01.52am Tuesday morning, the fascinating race-long duel between the Farr 100 Leopard 3 and the Wally 93 Bullitt concluded.

It was the Chris Sherlock skippered Leopard 3 that glided into Marsamxett Harbour first on a cloudy, but moonlight night.

The waterline length of the older, but revitalised, Monegasque-flagged maxi proved decisive once through the Egadi Islands, off northwest Sicily, converting a 30-minute lead into a more comfortable one hour, 50 minutes.

Bullitt at least has the consolation of winning IRC 1 on time correction.

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