Well, it's been a long time in the planning but we are finally off on our circumnavigation!
We had a wonderful start and after an afternoon and a night on white sails being very prudent, we have dusted down the Parasailor and we are sailing along nicely. We are just north of the Columbian border at the moment, but a long way off shore. Last night was just magnificent as we left the Parasailor up and made excellent progress. The wind is said to increase closer to the land, so we will probably drop back to white sails only again tomorrow.
It has been a few days now since leaving St Lucia. It has taken us a little while to send emails and update the blog because with just the two of us on board there hardly seems time! Jonathan is having a lot of trouble getting to sleep, so he is quite tired. Hopefully once we settle into the lifestyle he can rest more. We are working a 4-hour watch cycle which seems to be working okay, but we may need to adjust it somehow to ensure we both get plenty of rest.
The yellowbrick tracker is up and running now, so you should be able to see where we are and where the rest of the fleet is quite easily. We are apparently the slowest monohull in the fleet and our handicap reflects that, so don't expect us to be anywhere near the front of the pack!