bit of a swim...

Hello, no blog yesterday due to a lack of power! The cigarette
socket that we use for the chargers for the sat phone and laptop stopped
working so during some wavey conditions we had to rewire the socket in to a
different power supply. This 5 min job on dry land took over an hour while bobbing
up and down and the fact that we didn’t bring and crimps or have the luxury
of a soldering iron meant is was a chocolate box connectors job...aka bodge,
but it is working and safely fused. Our position amongst the other boats in the race took
a bit of a battering dropping for 4th to 7th, think that our previous luck with
being in the right position to catch the right wind had run out as we were rowing
just as hard! We did see about 20 dolphins from the boat yesterday
but they were all over 50m away, still very exciting when you just catch a sight
of something moving out the corner of your eye and it turn out to be that. We have also done so interior design modifications to
the deck space. As we are only rowing one at a time we decided to make a bit
more room on deck by shifting the foot plate for the stern rowing position and
also putting the life raft into a central position. This has made a nice space
to sit down on deck where you can lean back against the life raft which we have
named “the armchair”. We have both been out for a swim today again to have a
bit of a clean and also to cool down. No further sightings of our friendly fish
though. Robert and Caroline, don’t think it was ‘BLT’ your eel
following us as we don’t stock enough bacon to feed him! Will try to get
some pictures uploaded tomorrow. Jim and Paul |