Callum stayed up with Alan for his watch and progress was steady in lumpy seas. Jamie and my watch was entertained by a sleeping Norris, with head tucked under wing and swaying in motion with the boat – some pretty fancy gyros and accelerometers in this birdie (watch out for the Youtube video and follow up TicTocs). Anyway, Norris remains a non-paying guest for the time being; hopefully we’re not taking him too far off course?!?
A quick inspection of kit in the morning showed some scars, but nothing insurmountable. The major discovery was two of Jamie’s underpants lodged behind the life raft – result! Jamie and Colin managed to fix the spinnaker pole and we reset the jib a-la-goosewing. We were back sailing west at around 8 knots. Oh, for a boring day! Despite our shenanigans of the day before, we still made reasonable progress. We are now beginning the countdown to St Lucia – around 450 nm to go.
24 hour progress – 151 nm – cumulative 2547 nm
Afternoon, evening, night shift – nothing to report. Thank…goodness for that!
Clive the cabin boy standing by…