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On Tuesday, December 1, with 1078NM made good and still 1078NM to go, we start to celebrate this special halfway over the Atlantic day. The day begin with a Dan excercise: He has found a solution for our watermaker problem. The watermaker is driven by our Panda generator, and as salt water waves flushed over the stern and through the vents into the inverter of the generator, it had got out of function some days ago. We still had sufficient fresh water to survive to St. Lucia, but it is troublesome to manage with a strict water conservation role. Now Dan disconnected the power from the generator to the watermaker, and connected it to the standard inverter instead and the watermaker made fresh water again! We were very delighted and Dan is now honoured with the Ydalir white sail of first grade.

Now Ulf surprizes us with huge Swedish candy boxes, filled with delicious swedish licorice, chocolate and ”lösgodis”. This was a special treat far out on the ocean and tears were in our eyes. 

This day we also saw the first ship on the voyage since the Cape Verdes, a 300 meter tall frighter bound for Singapore. We called them up on VHF and they diverted their course to give us clear way. We are not alone on this ocearn, even though it mostly feels so. 

We continue to celebrate with boat made icy lime cheesecake. It was cool and tasty in the hot sun. As the winds were calm, force 2,, the Parasail was gently taking us forward, Nilla nd Ulf jammed ”Summertime” on flute and guitar on deck and we believe we had a crowded audience under the keel. One of our fans got hooked on a feeling. It was a quite sizable Dorade. 

Now it was time for champagne together with the captains freshly baked bread, slices of Canarian chorizo and juicy olives. This halfway day turned out to be the best so far and with an Asian chicken wok with fresh vegetables, we were all very happy and relaxed. Come what may, we are already halfway. 

Nilla