Another 2 days to go, 369nm between us and St Lucia.
From today's position report, Terry has worked out that we have about 20 boats within 50nnm of us, so in theory we should all arrive on the same day even though we haven't seen each other since the start of the race!
For some reason we all feel tired and fed up with the crossing today. It's not that it has been a bad one, on the contrary: we've suffered only minor damage, had very nice weather, no storms (so far!), no one has been sick, the meals on board have been terrific, so has the fishing, and we didn't even have school to worry about! No, I put it down to accumulated fatigue due to odd sleeping hours, stress from the past few night watches dealing with squalls ( we were hit with 37kts winds last night!), and increased temperature making the cabin quite warm and uncomfortable. I suggested tonight, that dinners be BBQ or (and) salad from now on, this is no weather for oven cooking!
Already, the kids have moved on to other things, asking where we'll spend Xmas ( 3 weeks to go, time to panic?). Marc can't wait to go lobster fishing, and Anne wants to go pushbike riding. For the rest of us, a big walk is in order,as would be a nice drink (preferably after the walk!). If anyone should be impatient, it would be Terry who ran out of beer today. He is threatening to raid the wine cellar, which has been untouched since I decided to go on a detox during the crossing.
In any case, we certainly are looking forward to spend some time in the islands, with passages no more than a day sail!