OCT 19^th Midday

Not a lot to report.  We are still on the same tack and the pole is still up. Or rather up again as after my watch  when I had slept for a couple of  hours the wind went a bit North and Steve decided to drop the pole.  The  noise of the winches in the aft cabin is deafening and needless to say I woke up and had almost gone back to sleep when the wind returned to NNE and the pole went up again.  I eventually gave up and got up an hour early for my watch.  We are now over half way to Gran Canaria and  in the last 24 hour period  did another 192 miles.  The sun is shining and the sky last night was full of gigantic stars. Last night Andrew did a Duck a la orange which was a feat in the rolling sea. Sotiris found himself wearing his glass of wine at the table…which didn’t please him greatly. I finished reading Ghost, the new Robert Harris book which is a very thinly disguised  delightful  indictment  of  our ex Prime  minister Tony and Blair and especially Cherie,  although in the book they are Adam and Ruth Lang.  How he is not being sued is a mystery to me. It is a brilliant explanation of the “special relationship” between Bush and Blair. I would go on about the book but I wouldn’t want to spoil it for anyone who reads it.  Highly recommended.

ETA Gran Canaria  Midday Sunday if the wind holds.