We have slowed down slightly but are still enjoying southerly 10 knts winds - Where is the Azores high hiding? Hopefully it's gone south...
The rally "closes" today at 12:00. We will miss that deadline, however we feel pretty good about our progress considering that we lost six days due to the broken boom.
On Ayama we are using 3 hour rolling watches. The schedule was designed by Sverker (who crewed with us to Bermuda). It takes into account that Anna does not do any night watches -she has day watches and meal duties instead. The rest of us have two watches in 24 hours, and every forth day we have three watches. It rotates so we have the same watches only twice in a row. Two common meals a day, Lunch at 12:00 and dinner at 19:00, breakfasts are individual
We have now 12 days at sea since we left Bermuda. The watch schedule seems to fit all of us nice. We get our sleep though we all have our own sleeping pattern and sounds :).
The days are merging together and it is hard to remember what day it is "did we see the storm petrel yesterday or was the day before? " Now we are all focused on arriving to Horta and are outguessing each other what time on Monday it will be.