Jubilate Mare - Day 7 - Weather & Wildlife!

Yesterday we 'slipped' our first hour. We will repeat twice more, at 5 day intervals; this means when we get to SL we will just have to turn our clocks back one hour to be on local time.

Today has been glorious, we've managed to outrun a couple of squalls and seen a lovely rainbow. A school of dolphins played around the boat for a long time and the excited crew took lots of photos and videos.

Pete left the cockpit to adjust something and found the first flying fish of our trip, dried out on the deck. I'm sure we will find lots more in the days to come. When we did the crossing, in 2017, I remember being enchanted, watching a shoal leaping the waves. It was magical - they resembled a small flock of flying, silver birds. Elaine spotted a bird today and one can only wonder what it was doing so far out at sea.

Our Sailor's Surprise Supper was cooked by Pete. Brilliant! Now called Captain's Chilli and well worth repeating. We shared a bottle of red at Happy Hour and Koen took a fab picture of the sun setting. Watch rota works well because we all get to see sunrise and sunset, have two days with 8 hours uninterrupted sleep and every third day you get 12 hours off from 8-8. The first watch of the day (8-2) does something simple for lunch and the afternoon shift (2-8) prepares the evening meal.

Well that's all for now folks. Bee, at sea!