A really delightful day in paradise after a muggy night spent skirting but
evading various sqalls with prolific lightning and manacing black clouds.
Everyone coping well with the new watch system and developing massive upper
arm muscles from steering via the tiller in the aft cabin. Dawn saw the wind
dropping to less than 2 knots so we motored for a while and miraculously
another attempt to reset Lilly the autopilot was successful and she
continued to function when, after an hour or two, we were back under sail.
Zoe showed us how to make bread with real Cordon Bleu style so our lunch
was a real feast. Ed had a well earned day off from tinkering in the shed
and Anna and Zoe made illustrated lattitude and 10 milecountdown charts to
help us keep tally of our last few days at sea. The afternoon weather has
been glorious with clear skies a fair wind and an impressive sunset. Tonight
sees us back on our old watch routine and a brain workout trying to keep up
with the plot of The Bourne Conspiracy, Of course the biggest news of the
day was the needle round of Battleships withFalbale (in Australian?) which
saw another win for Gulliver. The gap is narrowing in more ways than one!
All the best from Mark, Ed, Lis,Andy, Anna and Zoe
