Day 3 of the voyage of the convict ship Endeavour III with her ruffian crew of 5, Capt Dave, 1st mate Stuart seapeople (have to be gender neutral these days!) Dominique and Juliette and myself.
All doing their duty diligently, but in survival mode with 3m swells, all not helped by yours truly deciding that my face needed to get up close and personal with the shelf in the head! Skipper and chief nurse managed to put me back together, but resulting in one man down for a couple of watches!
We still achieved 127nm in a NNW heading with NW winds averaging 21 knots even with god Trident conspiring against us. The convicts below were complaining bitterly, but were soon silenced with Dominique brandishing her cat and ninetails!!
On to calmer seas tomorrow, we hope.
Mark Bridger
Engineering invalid
-- David Preston