9.26S 118.36W  Thursday 20^th March – Day 13 and all is well!  Well we can’t say we’re not well rested – Bennett and I must have slept 18 hours out of each 24 for the last week!  Paul has been doing double watches for the last 1,400 miles but at least he has stayed healthy, if tired.  The beef casserole went down well but in customary style I made so much of it that two repeat meals later, they’re fed up with it now!!  My taste buds change at sea – tea tastes like poison, squash like pure chemicals and tinned food inedible for the salt content. 

I’ve thought of a great new diet regime – despatch anyone wishing to lose weight into a ‘Yacht Crossing the Pacific’ simulator for one month. Pack in their rations and lock them up tightly with no method of escape, before wildly shaking the whole contraption non stop day and night – I’m sure a lot of skinny people like us would emerge, blinking with wonder at civilisation!!!

Well, you know what they say, ‘bad news sells newspapers’ but touch everything wooden we don’t have anything bad to report today so the blog remains quite tame!

We’re just reading and writing and watching films and speaking on the net and cooking and eating and cleaning and sleeping whilst Anahi ploughs her way ever forwards with our trusty Hydrovane steering us on course.  The wind is stronger now – 20 knots average and our speed has picked up a little more.  All being well we seven or eight days away………….