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Today's diary is written by Bosun, Visiting Professor of Astro-Navigation, Knot Specialist and Captain's Room-mate Paddy Smyth...

151 miles of boisterous trade wind sailing has given way to calm seas and clear skies as we sail gently at 5 knots with 12 knots of wind.

The first 36 hours of queasiness has gone, and we are now enjoying more relaxing weather, good sleep and time for leisure, as everything on the boat becomes a bit easier to do.

The wind vane moves quietly from side to side, making little corrections to our course, as we head north. Hardly anything needs to be done to the sails - we expect to be close hauled on this tack for several more days. So our progress is entirely wind powered and controlled.

But we still need electricity for the instruments, lights, fridge and freezer. These call for five hours of generator time a day, so you could say that this 12 ton mobile home is managing 150 miles to a gallon of diesel.

We're recycling our bio-degradable rubbish and saving plastic till we get to the Azores. Never mind a Conservative Lib-Dem coalition - Vote Green, Vote Neroli!

Allan has introduced the first contest, to make plasticine models of everyday objects – all extremely difficult as you will see when the winner is photographed. We are now working on our designs, - in between snoozing, eating, and keeping watch.