We're trolling along at 4 - 5 knots heading 020 (a bit east of north for the uninitiates) and we're at 21:52.9N 58:45.4W. Its just started to rain so I thought I'd take the opportunity to come below and update the blog. Yesterday was a good day. All of us feeling OK for the first time we had a beautiful blue sky all day and we all had a shower - from a sort of solar heated bag thing which we haul up over the foredeck. Salt water from a bucket first (+ shampoo/soap) then the solar bag (which has been heating up on the cabin roof since we left Antigua). It was wonderful! Dinner was a magnificent salad - from Robert - and, as it was Saturday night - two (yes two!) cans of beer each. Fia Tira (the other yacht in our 'fleet' is still behind us (about 20 miles) but we're keeping in touch twice daily. Given our leading yacht status, our call sign seems to have changed from plain 'Stromboli' to 'Stromboli - Ocean Greyhound'. Not normally the image Stromboli exudes (take for example racing at Strangford Lough). But Fia Tira is basically a 45 foot steel box, pointed at one end, and weighing only marginally less than,say, Stonehenge. So the Ocean Greyhound gag is more of a comparative statement.
