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Incisor - Incisor daily blog 27-11-2013



Hello from the mighty Incisor!

Today has been a beautiful day with 10knts of wind and not a cloud in the sky – this is definitely what we signed up for! And the day is set to get better with chicken fajitas for lunch! We have even had bacon sandwiches for breakfast so don’t worry that we are starving out here because we are eating like kings. The motto on board for the food is, when its gone it gone (WIGIG). We have passed a large pirate looking ship today which got everyone all very excited with cameras at the ready with a lot of waving going on, it’s only been 4 days and we are already getting excited to see other people!

Last night was light and a little chilly, but when you have to get up at 3 in the morning to come on watch and you are a little grumpy because you are out of your snugly bunk it is all made better by Frans’ jokes. He was having the whole crew in fits of laughter. He went off watch and came back on 3 times to tell a joke to keep moral high. The first two were very very funny, but we were sceptical of the last one as it was lost in translation...I’d like to think the Dutch version was funnier because in English it just didn’t make any sense! The night was also helped by watching the dolphins chase the squid/jelly fish which were lighting up the sea and mixed with the phosphorescent it looked fantastic!

We have lost our little passenger Dave, presumed dead, but we still have hope for him. We think he got frightened off when we took the spinnaker down last night, it may have been all a bit too much for him.

We now have a new record holder for speed – Katharine got us up to 16.2knts and she wasn’t even breaking a sweat. We are now doing 9knts in 11knts of wind and are about 350 miles from Cape Verde so all is well on board.

Hope you’re not all too cold back home!



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