After another night of torrential rain, San Francisco is now bathed in sunshine. The crews are emerging from their various yachts looking slightly the worse for wear having celebrated hard last night. Despite spending five weeks at sea, their homing instincts in finding the nearest bar seem as sensitive as ever and the establishments along Chestnut Street did a roaring trade.

    For the boats just in, today will be a day of deep cleans, food planning, sail checks and winch servicing. For California, work will begin on removing all items damaged in their incident and the Clipper maintenance team are already working through their schedule. The yachts replacement mast arrived in Los Angeles last night and once it has cleared customs, it will be loaded on to a truck for the journey up to San Francisco. Yards are already booked to remove the stump and step the replacement. The same applies to Edinburgh Inspiring Capital and a team of rigging experts are standing by to replace her damaged spreader and do a full rig check.

    Today is public open day and two boats are open for tours between 10am and noon and again between 2pm and 4pm. If you live, work or are visiting San Francisco, we would love to see you at gate 11, San Francisco Marina.

    As the crews enjoy the sunshine, they have been catching up with news from back home with phone calls to loved ones and through the seemingly never ending delivery of letters and packages to the Golden Gate Yacht Club.

    The crews have also been swapping yarns from their experiences in the Pacific storms. Cork crew member Mike Lewis who sailed in on the Scottish boat spoke about trying to sail conservatively to protect their rig. Despite having a heavily reefed main and a storm jib, they were still achieving speeds in excess of 22 knots. Over on Uniquely Singapore, they countered that with 16 knots of boat speed without any sails up at all! What is clear is the Pacific crossing really tested everyone and it will take a few days before the scale of their achievement sinks in.

    All thoughts now turn to Team Finland as they continue to make good progress east. The Race Committee have agreed that they should be receive average points for race 7 which will be awarded upon their arrival in San Francisco.

    Spirit of Australia still leads the overall championship with 70 points but with a maximum of 70 points still on offer between now and 17 July all the teams have everything to play for.