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EH01 - Day 8,9 & 10



Hello hello hello from the good ship EH01- any suggestions for a new name would be great, our crew offerings are only suitable for the watershed.!
 
Well as Ronan Keating puts it “Life is a rollercoaster” and this certainly been true on EH01 for the last few days. We have encountered a wide range of weather from Atlantic squalls to boat becalming which is frustrating when we are against the clock to our destination. Also the 4 hour watch system doesn`t get easier and due to lack of sleep each of the crew have their grumpy moments but we are all helping each other through it. i.e telling the grumpy person to get a grip Smile.!
 
If you want a detox and also a weight-loss sailing experience send the 2 thinnest people on the boat to get provisions, Andras and Jimbo, not a cm of excess fat between them.!  Starkers has had to put a couple of new holes onto his belt. We all look a lot healthier and have lost the carb bellies that is mainly caused by bread, oh to have some lovely baguettes.! The snack-master undergoes daily abuse about dishing out half biscuits, it is quite reminiscent of a scene from Oliver.
 
On Tuesday Jimbo and Storme did a hair treatment, a very expensive pure lemon, we aim for Jimbo to be white blonde by the time that he gets to the Caribbean. Also clean clothes have run out so the washing started in earnest, the boat now looks like a Chinese laundry which has replaced the fruit nets as our fruit has nearly run out, how long does it take for scurvy to set in?! Clothes pegs are still a hot commodity, forget about oil prices.!
We also had a new friend join us: Edwina the Egret who hung round the boat for ages, obviously liked the eclectic music and the ham that the crew were feeding her.
 
Pricey (Rich) has been logging our progress diligently after every watch: distance sailed and distance to our destination. This has been a hot debate topic as to celebrate the halfway point a cake is baked and an official photo is taken. We decided that even though yesterday was not the official halfway point, it was the midpoint of our voyage and would be psychologically good for us to celebrate this. Our omelette lunch team used the last of the eggs  but Doug was able to improvise with milk, butter and some yeast and coated the chocolate cake with roasted walnuts, mmm!
The food colour team did not fare as well as they covered the cake with concentrated green and yellow dye (instructions were in Spanish) and half the crew had green dye all over them. The cake was delicious though.!!
 
We are very excited about Peder`s upcoming birthday on Saturday, unfortunately the purchased Birthday paraphenelia has been mislaid (left in Las Palmas) so the marketing team are scrounging for cardboard and paper for some very trendy home-made fare.! Also it is rumoured that Peder is a fan of extreme music, Amazon don`t seem to deliver hard-core heavy metal to a mid Atlantic destination.
 
As I write this we are 1355nm from our destination which is 5nm from our official halfway (yee haaa!!) and our ETA rums in Rodney bay is Thursday afternoon. We have eventually found the Trade winds which were on a long minibreak and we are flying along in 18knots of breeze with a good 8knots SOG and 7.5knots VMG which in laymans speak means that we are going fast in the right direction.!  This is such great news for us as yesterday we were stuck in a wind-hole at 0knots boat speed and listening to the frustrating slap of the sails going nowhere in hot hot humidity. Rumour has it we are now back in the game and are chasing some of the boats which took the Northerly track and have made time on Joanna of Cowes, watch this space!
 
Tune in tomorrow for an introduction to the Skipper, First and Second mate.
 
The EH01 Marketing Director Out
 
 


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