Dear All,

All is well in the blue world. We can feel we are getting South as the water gets warmer, bluer and generally feels different. We are now just over two thirds of the way with around 850 miles to go, so we are slowly getting into the Party mood. The wind has been pretty irregular to say the least. Last night, we had a nice squall on the way to remind us that we have not yet arrived. At least, we had a good reason to justify bringing the waterproofs along. The boat was crystal clean this morning after the tons of rain that fell on us. At one stage, without any sails on, we were still progressing at over 5.5 knots.

News from the poets’ corner:

From cirrus to stratus,

The cumulo nimbus

Give us the impetus

To use an umbrellus

We have made very good progress at reading clouds.

Today is Saturday, so we are going out and DJ Matthieu is firing the night. Tomorrow is Sunday, so pancakes and nutella to start with: we have a now a full set of traditions in place and mutinies are quick to develop if you change crews’ habits. We also stick to our daily rum ration and we double on Sundays in pure Navy tradition

Happy Saturday night, be good

Noeluna