Hi All

Our current DTW (distance to waypoint) is 62 nm! How I wish I was in a car...less than an hour and I'd be in possession of the arrival bowl of fruit and importantly rum punch! I'm trying to be patient, but I think I'm close to driving Chloe insane. I have a lot of energy having been contained in a 46 by 14 ft yacht for the last 19 days. My sister will no doubt sympathise with Chloe. Still, less than 9 hours and we should be there. Approx midnight our time, and 4am Saturday morning back at home.

Winds have been kind for the past few days and we have hopes of catching a couple of boats in our class that were just 1 and 5 miles ahead of us yesterday. We have chased down a yacht and gone past her today - not sure what or who she is but its still nice to be in front! If we do manage to overhaul the boats closest to us then we have a shot at finishing in the top 5 over the line in our class. Motoring penalties will then come into it and we think we will compare favourably there.

You would think, that with circa 50 boats due to finish today, we would start to see a few, but as yet we have only seen the one.

As we will be arriving late, we have decided to have a small on board party and then get a good night's sleep before we spend the whole of Saturday carrying on our arrival celebrations. We have beers and wine chilling in the fridge and expect to have Jan (Caruthers’s wife) and Bridget waiting on the pontoon to join us.

Crouchy (The basil plant) is strugging to contain his excitment at making it to the caribbean. He will look the part in its grass skirt and flowers.

Once we are able to check out the internet connections in St Lucia, we will start to send pictures, after a much needed dip in the ocean.