Ocean Blue - Ocean Blue - Closing in on St Lucia through the squalls

Life aboard Ocean Blue has been a little less eventful over the last few days. The days have been hot and mainly sunny, the winds light to moderate and the Parasailor has remained the sail of choice. We have had a few squally nights, with massive wind shifts and huge deluges of warm but very wet rain.

The fishing has been successful, landing a sizeable Wahoo which was filleted and eaten for dinner within a few hours. With the wind pretty much behind us the boat has been a more stable platform for doing a few jobs - meals have been crafted from individual ingredients, rather than pre-prepared frozen ones brought out (though we have eaten amazing well throughout the trip whatever the weather). Bread has been baked, luxuries such as cheesecake made and Lesley's lemon sorbet is a total hit with us all.

So far the boat is holding up well- the DuoGen is working still, and when the breeze is up generates as much power as we are using. The generator shredded its raw water impeller this morning but that was easily changed and we have full water tanks (despite three loads of washing being done yesterday) due to the continued excellent behaviour of the watermaker.

We have had countless flying fish around and on the deck and seen some more dolphins playing around the boat.

We have 261 miles to go and the breeze is forecast to stay, so that should see us arriving in St Lucia in the early hours of Thursday morning.

Everyone is in good spirits and beginning to smell the rum!

Derek, Lesley and Pete.