Challenger 1 - TS Crew Blog 27/11/19 Challenger 1

Day Unsure

We are well underway and all finally understanding the watch system and what is required. I will start with my thoughts on the first few days. Race day had arrived and although being on land was entertaining I felt it was finally time to get sailing and see how this team of St Lucians, Gran Canarians, Swiss and British would pull together and work as one. The team has been great, and as always the universal language of music and my dulcet tones certainly get a few remarks in all languages, but the karaoke must go on.

My words on Day (3-4?), we ended watch at 7am on a beautiful sunrise, knowing that when we would awake a lovely lunch would be waiting, this would be the energy needed to propel us through the shift as light breezes have set in. Of course with the lovely day arriving I’m sure a few of my watch couldn’t sleep so took the time to chat and interact with the other watch, It’s nice to see the whole crew coming together as although we are divided into watches we still all have one goal and are always reliant on the person stood next to us.

Cooking, if any of you know me is my favourite chore! I got so good at using Just Eat that for me this is the most difficult part of this trip, I am always thinking with so many different cultures my standard beef casserole, from a packet mix, wouldn’t go down well. After a couple hours on watch and changing my ideas on how and what to cook with it, we ended up with a plan. This was going well, meat was fried the stew was starting to come to the boil. I thought I still hadn’t finalised my vegetarian option. With the help of the Skipper and fortunately the other watch leader who had awoken early we managed to put together a resemblance of a lovely vegetable stew, or so I’m told.

It is currently 1:16 Boat Time and 2:16 UT and there are no words to describe how the beautiful the stars in the sky are, and we are flying at 5.5 Knots with 12 Knots of breeze, keep it up team and let’s see what the next few days bring.

(Alex WL)