Saturday 24^th June. Beautiful sunrise as I came on watch at 06.00 but it was very quickly full oilskins! A bit of rain and it looks very unsettled astern (apart from seeing the spinnaker of Bliss behind us for once!)

Robert had a tricky watch 03.00 to 0600 while I was blissfully asleep for a really good zzzzzzzzzzzz! Robert had wind shifts, light winds, stronger winds and everything but wriggled slowly ahead of Bliss. We still have the spinnaker up – 24 hours now since we hoisted it – and it is helping a lot. I am about to download the weather as the wind has now finally veered SW and I need to check whether it builds or not. If it does I hope it does so slowly so that Robert can have a good catch up on sleep!

Just a brief message right now – there is a lot to attend to with the sails as she is going very quickly again!

Tim and Robert