2517N 016.13W Well we have salted our small squid and frozen him and washed him down and he’s on the end of the line but STILL no fish!!! Michael is beside himself!!

Not a lot to report, lovely to be upright and tickling along with a little breeze!  We pop the engine on when it dies completely and frankly it is very civilised and comfortable – not sure the rest of the Rally would agree with me – they’re on the  VHF and SSB constantly all day obsessed with how fast they are going over the sea, over the ground, changing course, discussing sail sets and generally sound thoroughly frustrated – cant understand it myself!!  At one point today we had both genoas up, and the stay sail and the main….. I’m sure that’s not cricket either………. We probably are using more juice than we had thought we would but worst case scenario would be to fill up in the Cape Verde Islands.

The days just pass by easily – Michael glued to his Spanish Tapes and in charge of the wind vane (happy wanderer), Oscar strumming on his guitar, Bennett and Paul fixing leaks and generally keeping on top of small problems which occur. Lovely temperate climate, sunny with a breeze – I have been trying to make the Antigua courtesy flag by hand – so many layers of material one over the other it will stick out vertically like a board rather than a flag!

We all make our own breakfast, Muesli with dried fruit and bananas for Bennett and Michael with a secret stash of fresh milk, last night’s left over dinner for Oscar and invariably a bacon sandwich for Paul and me.  Salad or a sandwich for lunch and chicken curry last night and bangers and mash tonight – there is so much food everywhere it is hard to find what you want in the right order, or even at all! (We are all dreaming of that nice fat fresh fish!!) Other boats have schools of dolphins and pods of whales all around them but not us yet………

Hakuna Matata have lost their email facility so we are in touch with their family for them, no news from Neva who lost their SSB, Zippy Do Da have left and are catching up fast!  Still a few boats left in Lanzarote and some are now 400 miles in front of us so quite a spread. 

The moon is setting at around 1.00 am which seems really strange – I had never really thought about moon rise and set before - the nights are very dark without her!