Position at 12.00 Noon (23 hrs after crossing the start line)
26 degrees 41 minutes north 16 degrees 36 minutes west Distance covered over the ground 108 nautical miles
Log reading (course) 124 nautical miles
Wind far from good but managed to sail well into the night. We poled out the Jib and used the smaller whisker pole for the stay sail, looked good, we also had some main out to help reduce the rolling but progress was slow down to 3 knots at time. Naturally we wanted more but the wind was exactly as had been forecasted so we couldn't complain. This being our first complete day and we started the new watch pattern which gave each member of the crew one night off from watch duty but meant that each had a days "Mother" watch 1 in 5. Yesterday was David Bates and what a high standard he set! Even to cleaning behind the cooker! Rob made his first batch of bread, wow, what a success, went down very easily, we have Esta baking bread tomorrow and banana cake, something to look forward to Looking around as the day went on we only saw about 6 of the ARC yachts spread out on the horizon. It's a big sea, few rollers and little wind, just the job for Power Boats! Had a spot of bother collecting our e mails, there were 10 to download but amongst those was 1 very large one causing my system to have indigestion!! So