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EH01 - Day 3 - 22 November



Since our last blog yesterday evening we’ve been trucking along in good pressure. Helming at night was difficult for everyone in full darkness but the crew held their nerve and were surfing the waves all night. Awesome job.! We gybed earlier this morning and now heading South-South West towards the latitude of the Cape Verdes. The weather forecast is promising for the next 24 hours but then we will find ourselves in lighter winds again. Hopefully still enough to keep us moving. Based on our weather routing we will keep going on this SW’ly course until Sunday/Monday when we can turn right and head directly for St Lucia.
 
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Sailor of the day- Pricey`s pirates
Ionut Lupu aka “Helming Harry” definitely wins sailor of the day for our watch as it was a very challenging evening on the helm with pitch dark conditions, low cloud, no horizon to steer to. Helming Harry kept his cool in up to 26knots of breeze and his helming was a big part in our achieving over 200 miles in 24hours.
 
Jimbos papaya facial peel
After a few days at sea the salty skin needs a bit of rejuvenation so our youthful Jimbo was our male guinea pig and the result was glowing clean skin, ideal for an Ocean going 18 year old to start early and the papaya has a fab smell  which is very helpful on a predominantly male boat.!!
 
E-dark
Yellow brick offer bundles of text messages which are measured by the amount of characters used and this is the only direct  communications method to far away loved ones. Before our voyage started Starkers (Giles) and Monkmeister (Cass) decided that they were going to go “e-dark” which means that you have no communication bundles and are totally offline for our trip. For some of the crew whose phone is akin to a third arm this idea was similar to a addict coming off substances cold turkey but the blog is a fantastic way to communicate our adventures and being able to totally immerse ourselves in this amazing experience.
  
Music
We are definitely relaxing more into each other company and are sharing each other eclectic tastes in music and syncing Doug`s Fugoo speaker with Storme`s disco Jam one and Skipper Andy (Andras) sensible JBL clip sailing speaker, its been loads of fun!
 
Tune in tomorrow for Monks music where Cass is looking for the most extreme music taste.
 

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