Fish Pie - 10am Monday 25th November

We had a lovely send off from La Palmas and enjoyed the festive spirit. Our strategy at the start was to hang back and then power up over the start line - this seemed to work for us and we were soon underway making a good 7 knots. Half an hour in we launched the FAWTH sail or FCB - potential trouble! We had a lovely run topping 11.5 knots, which really boosted our morale.
There was over 30 knots of wind in the acceleration zone, needless to say the FCB was put to bed!!
We had a quiet night with the wind dropping off at about 4am. All going well just breakfasted on scrambled egg on toast. crew not very receptive to my suggestion of listening to a book together, so it looks like I'm on my own on that one!
Judith