Continued great sailing for all the fleet today with gentle 10 to 14 knot SE winds and a positive helpful current of 0.3 to 1 knot. This means that most yachts are making about 7 knots over the ground (3500 meters below us!).
I expect the wind to die a little tonight so making the most of it while it lasts.
I will attach a photo of several great white tipped sharks; one took an edible interest in my yellow gloves! If I can work it out, I will try to put two pics in the same frame, one of a startled me in my bright yellow gloves and the other of the sharks. If I cannot work out how to do it the second pic. will follow tomorrow. If you look closely you might just be able to make out a small fish directly in front of and below one of the sharks. ½ second later the fish was a nice tasty morsel for the shark! Sharks get into a feeding frenzy which seems to affect all the sharks as a group and it is best not to be amongst them in this state!
I unusually put on the high grip gloves to hang onto the vertical rock face as I knew we would have a 2 knot current against us and would have to hang on tightly from time to time.
My normally well developed sense of self preservation eluded me on this occasion – never again!
Capt. Peter