Hummingbird - Sunday night: Chris's first blog

We really have settled into a routine of the three hour life in the three team watch system. Night duty is great because its so much cooler. Still t shirts only and shorts. Down in the ‘hold’ in the day s in from the small portholes and delight in the simple pleasure of the cheap B&Q fans we were all issued by Rachael to keep our temperatures down. The seas have been much calmer and with so much less swell than I had expected which is great. We are atuned to looking rear for potential squalls heading up on us but nothing so far and nothing on the immediate horizon. Its definitely warmer than I had expected as I had arrived with full wet kit and boots and layers which all sit redundantly at the bottom of my storage locker until now. I had hoped to be able to communicate while in the middle of the Ocean via my Immarsat sat phone but having made several tries of text and calls I haven’t managed to get through so aplologies to those expecting to hear my cheery tones from Latitude 14 degrees N. In the next 24 hours we are embarking on a celestial navigation course setting and not monitor the GPS. This should be fun. It has involved compass checks and taking sightings on stars at night and the sun in the day. If you see us facing Brazil or Greenland in the next 24 hours you know why!
Chris