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Cherish - Day 2 settling in



Next day saw us all a little more settled (photo actually from day before as Air drop won’t work with my phone and pics!). Here is Will emerging from the depths, smile on his face, which is pretty much how we all felt with the rising sun. Skipper had us into a watch system: Anthony & WJ on Red Watch, Ali & Will on White Watch, Sven & Chris on Blue Watch. Watches rotate over five changes in 24 hours: 0800-1400 (responsible for lunch & washing up), 1400-2000 (responsible for dinner & washing up), 2000-0000, 0000-0400, 0400-0800 (responsible for breakfast & washing up). Skipper gets up more or less each watch change to settle new watch in. At sundown tricolour is turned on at the mast top: white light to show sailing and red port and green starboard lights. Crew up in cockpit at night (sitting around where Anthony’s feet are in photo), must all wear life jacket, clip on with harness , and wear personal locator beacon (PLB), so Cherish can find them if they go for a dip! After a while and at end of a night shift the life jackets can feel quite heavy. We are therefore trying stretches and boat yoga (more later) to build up our stamina. We passed our first weigh point at 28o52”80N 016o16”77W.
WJ

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