Great sailing through the night under a clear sky and full moon (i like the
moon but not as much as cheese) which made it seem almost like daylight. In
fact Caz commented in the morning it was great sailing under a clear blue
sky with all those stars out, doh!!
Lighter winds in the afternoon meant that we could get all the sails up so
that's the mizzen, mizzen staysail, main and gennaker. We even tried poling
out our 2 Windscoops to give us that extra half knot! However our colour
co-ordination is something to be questioned with rather pastey white
original 1973 sails, the red, blue and white mizzen staysail and the bright
hot pink 2,000 sq.ft. gennaker!
We're not seeing much of the crew during the daytime as we have taken on a
new passtime, sleeping. I think the partying in St Lucia has caught up with
us and the detox is just beginning. In fact I think today Ben was asleep
more than he was awake.
Talking of the crew maybe a quick intro is needed. We're 7 onboard for this
leg to Panama, you've got Jeff, skipper, and his wife Caz who've been on the
boat since the Florida Keys, Sam joined the boat in New York, Lyall who
rejoined in Antigua along with the crazy Dutch man Nils, then we picked up
Ben in St Lucia who found out 5 days before he was on the trip and Wolfy who
flew in the night before the start having never been on a sail boat before -
we keep telling him we're nearly there!
Lyall