Position 02:35.36N 85:14.14W

Day 4 of our passage and we have 366 miles to go, approx 2 days to Galapagos.

We are nearing the equator but our heading is South West so we don’t expect to cross it until tomorrow afternoon.

Although this passage is notorious for it’s lack of wind, so far we have had good winds and current and we are still sailing along at around 8 knots.

Boats who left ahead of us have been suffering with no wind at all and we are quickly catching them up, let’s hope we bring the wind with us.

Yesterday we had a call from ‘Roundabout’ to say they had a fire on board !

They traced the smoke to the bilges and used a fire extinguisher to put out flames coming from low down in the boat.

We have assumed it was the bilge pump shorting out and they have isolated the power to that and everything else appears ok.  

Fire on board is the worst scenario and all the crew on ‘Roundabout’ were a bit shocked and worried so we altered course and slowed up, along with Jackamy, to converge with ‘Roundabout’ in case they needed any help. Yacht Raylah arrived on the scene first as she was the nearest boat and took David & Joe and the crew under their wing. It is nice to know there is support around you.

A peaceful night and all is well this morning, we can see Jackamy and Roundabout and we also have another yacht in sight – could this be an imposter in our convoy ?

There is a bit of cloud this morning and it is getting very humid and tropical as we head South.