The action started when Dick noticed the main engine battery had drained to 8 volts. In Plymouth the MES engineers had wired the SSB directly to the battery (another long story), and for some reason it had drained in 12 hours.  Bill and Dick managed to start the main engine by linking to the generator start battery. They then thought that the engine wasn’t charging its own battery but managed to get a charge by starting the generator. By now we were just inside the separation zone off of Ushant.  Bill contacted Discovery and further investigation by Mr fix it Bigus identified the battery monitors appear to be swapped giving the impression of charging problems, happily it looks a s though all is ok, apart from an SSB that eats batteries for breakfast.

The rest of the day provided excellent sailing conditions in the big rolling swell coming in from the North West.   This evening e have enjoyed Salmon en-croute with carrots, French beans and jersey royal potatoes. We all sat and enjoyed the meal in the saloon, how civilised!

Not much traffic about for Dicks watch from 8-11 but then more purse seine fishing boats for Richard to deal with. We are now sailing towards the shelf where depths drop from 100-200m down to 3000 metres and more.