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Puddle Jumper - Captains Blog Star Date 5th Dec



Hi All (& Hey C)
 
Tonight’s guest blog is by Hansel, looking after the navigation and checking it by sextant as we go.  A great fix this morning with sun and moon read together to match up with the GPS.  From all this data I can definitely say we are somewhere in the Atlantic and it is still getting hotter so I guess we are going somewhere west and south.  Maybe Rio?
 
A very sunny day today and a fantastically successful day.  With the wind finally calming down a little, below 20 knots, we launched the Parasailor. Great news for the Hansel & John watch team as we had gone to bed at 6 am, and the skipper freshly napped, got everyone up at 8 am for launch.  The sail went up without a hitch to everyone’s relief, so we decided to play around with it, take it down and put it up again in different ways, just like a boy with a new present that you can’t put down.  She is a beautiful sail and pulled us along at great speed and an ever increasingly large angle of inclination with skipper at the helm.  We have now put her to bed with the white sails out for easier handling tonight.
 
At the moment the two Williams are up top, the Johnny and Charlie show is on in the kitchen, with today’s main dish of Risotto, with fruit juice instead of white wine! - should add something different. Charles is feeding us lots of crisps to keep up our salt levels.  Richard is making water, a gurgling osmosis process that he has mastered, although we prefer the bottled for taste.
 
The beard contest is being won by John, who had a bit of a head start, but Richard’s is coming along nicely too.  The rest of us seem to have now joined except Charles who is keen to keep up his all over tan.
 
If you are following our track, we have decided to go further south to try and avoid a low pressure hole of zero wind that lies a couple of days ahead, and may otherwise halt our progress.  Hopefully we will miss it but it looks like we might be in for some low winds.
 
Beam reaching now at sunset with full main and genoa going at great speed.  John and I will be looking at the stars again tonight on our night sky watch and to try and guess where we might end up.
 
JD awarded the Grufallo today, (JD 1, Skipper 6, CS 1)
 
Love to everyone (&Xxx)

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