These are a few of my favourite things

Global Yacht Racing's P42
Global Yacht Racing
Thu 21 May 2009 11:33
42:00.2 N 39:11.6 W
520 miles to the Azores.
Moderate winds, broad reach. Sunny. Lovely

Having had the wind in our face for a couple of days we were kind of glad when it died totally yesterday. For a couple of hours we were becalmed, and it gave us a great chance to dry out the boat and refresh ourselves and have a shower in the middle of the ocean. The water darn freezing actually - but great for morale, the cushions and our clothes. Sadly the stereo has died (due to the humidity) so now we have to sing instead.

We took stock of supplies, but eventually had to commit to a stop in the Azores, despite favourable winds to England. We've finally got the sun and waves from the brochure and all seems a bit brighter for a while (touch wood!)

Roy and I were thinking of the coolest 5 things that we've seen in the last 48 hours and thought we'd share them with you:

1) The Milky Way. Brighter than ever, you can even make out the arm of our galaxy.
2) Whales.We got very close to a broaching pack yesterday.
3) Phantom dolphins. Caused by the dolphins swimming around our boat at night and leaving phosphorescent trails in the water
4) The red moon rise. Again I got very excited thinking it was a big ship getting VERY close and giving me a heart attack at 2am!
5) The blue-bottle jellyfish, with their inflatable sail that sits on top of the water

Iain and the Crew..

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