Another day of superb sunshine, this
morning we hoisted the spinnaker with an average speed of 8 knots. We are
currently competing for a top speed on the Helm held my none other than Dr David
!! The sunsets have been absolutely
stunning giving a rouge effect, due to the Sahara sand and with Jupiter and
Venus up there, it sets for an excellent night watch!
After much trial and error Mike,
Uncle ‘Pete’ (Peter Bacon) and I have cracked the Sun sights with the sextant.
With Peter’s excellent skills in mathematics it didn’t take us long to realise
that we were in actual fact heading in the right direction for St Lucia, the
first day we took sights Skipper Matt
was quite concerned when he saw the sights and realised we were somewhere
over the Bay of Biscay, a little worrying, however we were determined to get it
right and achieved sights within 1 nm of where we were.
Well my beard is still growing, and
unfortunately I’m getting rather to many remarks from other crew about
resemblance to ‘George Michael’ with Nikki saying I quote ‘ Fabio I’m going to
throw myself over board if it gets any longer’. So after a group discussion
Yankee Jan has very kindly said he will take me under his wig and show me how to
groom a fine distinguished bit of facial hair, he is a specialist in this area
of his many expertise, I knew my cabin buddy would come to the rescue!
The conversation is still flowing
smoothly from everyone, only until Matt’s iPod got put on to some heavy metal
tunes, Uncle ‘Pete’ was far from impressed by this with some words ‘rah rah’ we
decided as a crew to not put him through any more pain and put some 1960’s
classics on, to which he was then telling us stories of his disco dancing days!!
Enough said on that.
Well that’s about it for now!
Currently 1600 nm to go… smashing !!
Fabio