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Hot Stuff - day 5



first we want to thank everyone who sent us emails of support, encouragment and belief. Although we are alone out in the ocean we do not feel alone with so many people thinking of us.

The weather this year is providing a lot of windholes. We constantly try to avoid them. On our current course the wind is on our starboard quarter. So Sophie put her racing bandana on, all hands on deck and we put up the kite - our final crew member. We're flying towards st lucia. Everybody is learning how to helm the symmetric loveshack spinnaker - great fun.

We had a little boat cheer as we reached our 500 miles mark. And we celebrated the first advent with a christmas candle (battery operated of course dont worry Annie!!), on our advent ring. Which made Lesley think she was hallucinating.

Fresh food is getting scarce and we are trying to make the most of it. Yesterday we had a beautiful stir fry from our raw food chef and the day before a last meat spaghetti bolognese. Today we had 'homemade' boat french onion soup! Yummies! All our bananas have gone off and we can't find the mystery hot chocolate but still we are a happy ship on our happy hot stuff:)

Everybody is enjoying the sun, Thea developed the trawling technique to do the laundry on the stern and we think she should start charging for the laundry service with payment being chocolate rations. Mary is hanging her knickers on the rail with a clove hitch and Kathrina is using a bowline on the pan to trawl as a dishwasher.

Now we are looking forward to nightfall and hoping Lesley is going to read us another ghost story on deck under the red glow of our torch lights. Team spirit is still high:)

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