All going well after another 24 hours of champagne
sailing conditions with clear skies and brisk Easterly breeze. Sunshine by day,
stars and a moon and phosphorescence overnight. A couple of competitors
visible overnight but nothing in sight today. The debate is always whether to
use the breeze to head further South to find even more wind or turn right to
point at St Lucia. W e headed South yesterday and overnight under symmetrical
masthead spinnaker and then swapped it for a smaller asymmetric at daybreak and
gybed to turn right. No navigational problems; Kit's sextant thinks we are
somewhere near Madeira, Matthew's knows our position to within 40 miles and the
GPS to the nearest metre. We can also tell the time, at least during hours
of darkness, with a really cool trick Daniel has taught us all, bed on the
positions of Polaris and the big Dipper and some basic arithmetic.
All in good spirits and living sumptuously on feasts
like garlic prawns prepared by Sandra, Jazz and Ashley, so no thought
of eating the cabin boy yet.