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Shalan - End of Day 2 at Sea



25:36N 016:50W

Ahoy there,

It's 21:38pm here aboard the good yacht Shalan. We've now been at sea
for almost 34 hours and are seeing fewer and fewer boats during the day
and night.

Weather wise, the wind has been disppointing most of the day we got a
high of around 10.4 knots this morning but has sinced dipped to a
distinctly average 5 knots. Weather update 2, and maybe more
importantly the team tan hasn't wildly improved either: some bright
spells but a bit grey mostly...

This afternoon we were joined momentarily by a 'collective noun' of
dolphins/whales (the jury is still out on both the type of creature and
collective noun), off the port side. We tried to attract them by
clapping and recreating mating calls but our efforts were in vain as
they ignored us and swam past.

As you'll see from the attachment, we had the most amazing sunset this
evening, the colours changed almost every second - the attached is the
pick of the bunch and we'll happily enter into negotations with Benetau
for the rights to use this in future advertising.

We're still fishless as we've yet to get a bite from the rods, we're
currently undertaking a spot of night fishing but won't hold our
breathe... Keep your fingers crossed for us! We all agreed that it's a
good job we weren't relying on catching our dinner! Instead, we ate
outside under a canopy of stars (through the momentarily break in cloud)
and enjoyed a fantstic chicken and rice dish cooked and served by Eric.
Eric has cooked for the past 2 nights and has set the bar pretty high! I
think it's Andy's turn tomorrow so our expectations may have to be
lowered a few notches.

Post dinner update:
Weather remains calm, true wind speed of only 4 knots so far this
evening meaning the boat is fairly level for now so the majority of us
are taking advantage of this and are below playing 'Project Cars' on the
PS4... We've all 10 minutes to record the fastest lap around Spa!? The
remainder are on deck blowing into the sales - Gaetan said this would work?!

I'm looking forward to a bit of a nap and then back on deck for the
graveyard 2am until 5am shift...

We'll update further tomorrow.

Oli




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