21:51.0N 18:34.1W

Even though the hot climate of Africa is our nearest land mass, it is still chilly on deck. Nic assures us that it will soon become warmer as the winds are due to come from the North and the Sahara desert.

It has been a relatively quiet and perhaps slow day as we are not only waiting for warmer winds but faster ones that will fill the sails and allow us to make more noticeable progress across the Atlantic.

It was Tim’s birthday today, he received a few presents and cards this morning and his present to himself was catching the first fish of the journey, a blue fin tuna. He is at pains to stress that the picture below does not do his catch justice and that surely the fish was much bigger than the picture shows!

We saw quite a spectacle this morning as a school of at least 200 dolphins swam past us at speed. Normally they ‘play’ with the boat, jumping in and out of the bow waves but these showed little interest in us as if they were on the hunt or even being hunted. They were jumping out of the water to such heights and it was such a sight to see that none of thought to get our cameras until it was too late and they were gone.

Sarah, as always, excelled and produced a lemon drizzle birthday cake for afternoon tea, what a girl.

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