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EH01 - Day 2 - Tuesday, 22/11



We had a very slow and slightly frustrating second day yesterday. After we managed to make some progress in fairly light but steady conditions during the first 24 hours, yesterday afternoon we found ourselves pretty much in a wind hole averaging about 2 knots for over a 12 hours – while most of our fleet managed to stay in some breeze and pulled away from us. However, massive credit to the crew for staying focused all that time and doing all they could to keep the boat moving. Wind finally filled in at around 3am this morning and we’ve been trucking along averaging nearly 9 knots since, which means we’ve covered over 100 miles over the past 12 hours. Crew is very happy.
 
We’ve made the decision to choose the southerly route and pass the Cape Verde islands to port (left) before we can turn right and head for St Lucia. This is to avoid a low pressure system which sits mid-Atlantic moving to the north east but very slowly with no wind in the middle. This is the reason why we cant sail the rhumb line and head straight to St Lucia. Some boats chose a northerly route, most of us the other. We’ll see in due course which will be the faster route.
Lovely conditions right now, bolognese is cooking, 18-20 knots on the beam, happy days.
 
Here’s a few lines from our Second Mate (Jimbo) & our inhouse Marketing DIrector:
 
The watch system is settling in where we have two teams, Priceys Pirates and Jimbo’s Jollies each doing four hours on, four hours off until 4pm when we do two hours on, two hours off in order to alternate the night watches – every other night is a RedBull night with eight hours of blind sailing. On 23rd November (Wednesday), Pricey’s Pirates start the day at 0000 with a watch change at 0400, etc...
 
 
Less dull news includes:
- To perk up the crew Andras ordered a pod of dolphins. And the DJ has confirmed that the dolphins preferred Wham to Norah Jones.
- Stormey is the self-elected Snack Managing Master, due to crew self-control issues.
- Doug’s Asymmetric quote of day: “make it wink, not blink”
- We can confirm that Orion’s Belt does exist after Starkey and Stormey’s star gazing session.
- P.S. Sincere apologies from the on-board Marketing Director, Bob was mistaken as Tom. They both have three letters and an ‘o’ in the middle... (The kid also wants to know whether his ‘plan’ for next November has been approved?)
 
Second mate and EH01 Marketing Director Out.

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