Hot Stuff - day 10

Today we have a birthday, many happy returns to Lesley!! And it has been a bacchanale of a celebration. champagne carefully chilled in the laundry trawling system. TWO bottles of Veuve Cliquot, the drinking of which is made fully safe and possible by the true wind speed of 0.5 knots (although the sharks are still following us!). Homemade hummous, now we are breaking into tinned food. gorgeous effort by Elisabeth. We are all sat in the cockpit, most of the laundry is done, tapas for lunch, a round of happy birthday wishes to Lesley. we are even wearing paper hats. The only thing missing from the festivities is the chocolate and strawberry cake that Thalita attempted to bake in the early hours. sadly it caught fire and was fed to the fish. But it is always the thought that counts!
By the end of the day, we are sure to have skirted the wind hole successfully and left snail speeds and lively upwind sailing behind! The only scary bit is listening to Jack London's White Fang Being read out to us in the darkness ... AhOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!
Now we are on a COG of 245 degrees, with the spinnaker leading the way we are hunting for the thus far elusive Trade Winds and their puffy clouds....