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Monomotapa 30 November

Another excellent meal last night, home made pizza or in our case boat made pizza, preceded by tortia chips with guacamole and salsa dips.Thank you Antonella.
Gin and tonic served on deck to celebrate that we have passed one third of the distance. Any excuse for a reason to celebrate with a drink, we had to switch on the autopilot as nobody wants to drink and drive, on a boat you really do spill it !! Both the ocean and the boat wre baptised with G&T in the hope of favourable winds and good speed.

We are now well adapted to our watch rota and we use our off watch periods to catch up with any lost sleep from during the night.
The temperature is slowly rising and during the night watches some of us have dropped the long sailing trousers and just go with the sailing jacket. This night we where overtaken by a 54 meter long pleasure vessel, we discussed whether we should call them on the VHF and ask what pleasures the provided but thought better of it...

We now have passed our sixth day on board and have sailed 1074 nm which gives us 1684 to go. The night was humid and for parts of it had very little wind. Now the wind has picked up and we are doing 7 knots VMG (Velocity Made Good), meaning which speed we have towards our target) Having a blue sky also improves morale.



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