Bamarandi - Sunday 29th November - Flying fish makes bid for Glens cabin

Days	Day	Date	Time	Miles to St Lucia	Miles in 24hrs towards St Lucia	Cum Miles towards St Lucia	Ave Miles per day towards St Lucia
1	Wednesday	18th	13:00	2090
2	Thursday	19th	13:00	1901	189	189	189
3	Friday	20th	13:00	1756	145	334	167
4	Saturday	21st	13:00	1605	151	485	162
5	Sunday	22nd	13:00	1423	182	667	167
6	Monday	23rd	13:00	1238	185	852	170
7	Tuesday	24th	13:00	1073	165	1017	170
8	Wednesday	25th	13:00	891	182	1199	171
9	Thursday	26th	13:00	722	169	1368	171
11	Friday	27th	13:00	531	191	1559	173
12	Saturday	28th	13:00	350	181	1740	158
13	Sunday	29th	13:00	156	194	1934	161

We have moved the clock back another hour to get closer to Antigua time so the distance is over 25 hours not 24. 

Yesterday mid-afternoon saw a large pod of dolphins join the boat and swim with us for a long time. We were able to get some good pictures and some good GoPro footage of them swimming with us. Some of us sat on the bow seats and on the trampoline nets and could see them joshing with each other for position right under our bows. We could clearly see them looking up at us and turning on their sides watching what we were doing. There was plenty of whistling and clapping from us to encourage them along.  There ability to accelerate away in front of the boat with seemingly very little effort or tail movement is amazing. 

It was great weather and sunshine all afternoon and evening with sunset at just after 5pm and moonrise at 8pm.  There were a few drops of rain in the late evening until the dark clouds that had gathered passed over us. At around 9pm there was a loud thump on the lower deck near the helm and a large 1’ long flying fish was found frantically flapping its way towards Glens open hatch. Within inches of falling into the cabin it was retrieved and returned to the sea flapping its large wings. The fishy smell of it was extremely strong and we were glad Glen was spared that new addition to his cabin.

At 8am this morning we passed through the last 200nm to go to St Lucia and have been counting down the miles since. We should be at St Lucia late morning tomorrow.

We can feel a noticeable rise in temperature today along with the swell which seems to have increased markedly again. Not only are there very large waves behind his but occasionally we get them from the side too making for interesting progress. The boat is handling it all very well and we feel very safe but moving about entails careful timing and hand holds even for the most experienced sailors amongst us. 

We left Antibes on 25th October and so will be pleased to get on another stage of our passage to our destination of Antigua, stopping at the end of the ARC+ in St Lucia tomorrow by when we will have covered around 4800nms.

Another delicious lunch and dinner thanks to Audrey & Caitlin who have been nearly full time in the galley also preparing and planning ready for the Boatshow.

Everyone on board is good and looking forward to reaching St Lucia.