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Challenger 2 - Challenger 2 Day Six



Hi Everyone,
Hope you are all enjoying our daily blogs.
Yesterday it was the turn of Mother Watch` A` again with James and Thomas. On board Challenger 2 we are running three watches with five crew in each. Each Watch is out on deck crewing the boat for three hours and then has six hours off. This gives us plenty of time to relax and catch up on sleep. Each day one person from each watch joins up to become a `Mother Watch`.
This means we have to prepare all the meals for the day starting with a cooked breakfast of scrambled eggs (34 eggs used!!) bacon and baked beans and toast cooked in the frying pan. The saloon was filled with the amazing aroma of cooked bacon thanks to an early start by Thomas at 6am when his watch were on duty.
So the rest of our day was spent preparing lunch and then dinner, yes Mother Watch is all about food and keeping the boat clean and `ship shape`. We have to put food in the stomachs of the boats crew and keep everyone happy.
We’ve had a nice East North Easterly wind and speed s of around 16 knots.
We are all settling into our routine of eat, sleep, sail.
Personally I am now enjoying the experience although sailing at night is difficult unless the stars are out.
Mike – now I know what it’s like to be in a washing machine!!!

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