Grael and his men crossed the line at 03:45 GMT to collect their four points. Once across Grael pointed the bow north for the 3,000-mile home stretch to Cochin.
Anders Lewander's Ericsson 3 followed her sister ship and crossed the waypoint at 06:51 to pick up 3.5 points.
Among the pursuing pack, Green Dragon, Team Russia and the Telefonica twins are squabbling over the remaining podium positions.
Bouwe Bekking on Telefonica Blue, likes his chances of decent points, noting as he did that the ailing PUMA has slowed over the past 12 hours due to structural damage.
"Looks like PUMA is having some issues, sailing very slow," he observed in an email earlier this morning. "Hopefully their issue are not too big and that they are not forced to stop on thei...