Captains log star gate seven the cries of joy where heard from the budding
ocean candidates yesterday as the sun appeared from behind the dull, grey,
wet, miserable clouds.
Sites were taken and positions plotted within 15 miles after some small
adjustments.
The call of dolphins now soumds more like oh not again. The wind is now favourable and building we have about 900 miles to go and everyone on board is reasonably happy message for czech ahoy which apparently means martin is still alive.
Pete cant wait to get back in the office and is clearly pinning for gill t a very big smiley face appears as he steers this 65 foot surf board down the atlantic swell.
Pauline is doing very well no more sea sick pills and is eating too now always a good thing.
Marinos rushes around crunching numbers and fretting about the little things around the boat we sent him forward last night to change the preventor and runner think he quite enjoyed the dark wet foredeck.
George has checked out all the navigation equipment and is quite happy that we will arrive safe. Also made a very interesting salad yesterday well he stuffed two kilos of blue cheese into a pepper – diferent.
Tony is still snoring in the forpeak in tune with Marcus who only gets up to
sit on sail and smoke his pipe.
Kate as always is Kate cake baked yesterday lovely thanks Kate.
Mike is wearing his hat much more on this leg than the last and definately
prefers the flatter down wind stuff.
Mel well what can we say about Mel she is bonkers stark raving bonkers keeps the humour on the night watches and keeps to her bunk at all other times in fact i think we may have to surgically remove the mattress from the girls back.
Rory is studying very hard things like his eyelids photos of his girlfriend
oh and stars and suns and clouds and stuff he really is a diferent person on
this cruise and is sleeping less,
Skipper well he is busy running the vessel and keeping the kettle hot and
writing the blog because no one else wants to so if ive offended anyone Im
sorry.
Nothing written in this blog is in any way Ondecks responsibility its all Rory’s as Mark is asleep so I’m pretending to be the skipper for an hour or two catch you all soon Juno
p.s piglet gets it if i dont get a message from kylie soon.
