Cara of the South - Day 2

26:16.08N 15:50.12W Midday Position Day 2 Monday 25th November

We definitely have too much food. Even if we eat a million calories a day
and arrive looking like engorged teletubies we'll still have enough to start
a small grocers business in St. Lucia. Jeremy Wyatt once made the point that
no one has ever starved on the ARC, I clearly haven't listened again. I made
this exact same mistake last time, I even have tins of food on here from my
last trip. The problem is you expect every locker to be full and if you
happen upon a slightly empty space you panic buy more stuff you don't need,
particularly food. I hear there is a charity in St. Lucia happy to take any
excess food so I'll get them to send a truck on arrival. We've had tons of
dolphins visit us today and staying for a few hours which was handy as they
seemed to know where they were going. We also passed within just a few
metres of a beautiful Catamaran called Ikagi, so close in fact I offered
them the rare opportunity to swap boats and become the proud new crew of an
old Tradewind 35 but they didn't seem too keen on the deal and carried on
fishing instead. David has been a right proper crew member today, he's done
all his work and even made coffee all day, he can come back. He was also
great with the sails whilst I tried to get some ever elusive sleep. It takes
me about 4 days to get in to the new sleep pattern so I'm pretty exhausted
at the moment but should be good by Wednesday. We're heading for a waypoint
Stokey gave me of 24:42.49N 22 59 00W and we're under strict instructions to
get there on Thursday as that's where the good wind will be, motoring is a
real pain. Had to motor too much so far. Had my first SSB sched (this is a
meeting of long range radio users at a specific time) so was good to use
this radio for the first time and hear how others are getting along. Thanks
to Cleone for organising that.