3.09S 92.46W Saturday 8^th March and we’ve actually found some wind!  And sailed for six hours today!  Plus we have some current running with us so 7.5 knots with no effort.  Chatting on the 10.00am net and again at 6 confirmed that we five remaining boats all managed to get away yesterday and are pretty close to one another which is nice – it means we can have a chat on the VHF if we want to. 

Both fridges had packed up by the morning and we think the gas has escaped from one which we cannot do anything about at sea but the other had a corroded wire on the electrical panel which we were able to fix.  So we have moved all the really perishable food into the one working fridge and put bread, vegetables and drinks into the one next door which will be cooled by the other, although defunct in itself.  Quite a feat to accomplish this task in a moving boat! They are top loading fridges so you can imagine the carry on…….

We all enjoyed a quiet lazy day today, motoring along with some rain and sunny periods.  It isn’t that hot though and you need a fleece at night. Getting back into our routine, breakfast at 9.00 when we are all awake, we all eat something different – Bennett likes fruit compote, we prefer a bacon sandwich! - Rally radio net at 10.00am, then repairs and maintenance: topping up the water tank, washing clothes, cleaning the heads, making beds etc. whilst taking it in turns to catch up on sleep - canapés at 3.00 – today we had sesame biscuits with local Galapagos mozzarella cheese, home made pesto (fresh basil from the market, pine nuts, parmesan cheese, garlic, extra virgin oil, sea salt and black pepper in the whizzer) with sliced buffalo tomatoes and pink onion slithers – reading (Investment Biker On the Road by Jim Rogers) – Radio net at 1800 for another chat with other boats – dinner at 1900 (Chicken, onion and sweet corn with sesame oil on Chinese rice noodles) – a film on the lap top – ‘send and receive’ on the iridium phone mailasail site to see if we have any emails and here I am back on watch………not a bad life is it?!