Position: 19:16:00N 25:38:00W

Transat Day 7

One week into the Transat, and it is very hard not to give into the temptation to analyse the data to work out when we will arrive.  Way too early to predict but it doesn’t stop everyone doing it.  My gut feel is a 23-day crossing.

We’ve had a good 24hrs with only one patch of light wind yesterday afternoon.  We’ve been in visual sight of “Vaiva” a Sweden 39, for the whole period and as I write this there are 2 other yachts within sight, all heading SW.

The highlight of the night was at 0400 when Sally was attacked by a flying fish – I am not sure who won really, as the fish eventually made its escape, sans a few scales, but I think it made its point and I can’t see Sally becoming a fisherwoman!

It was my turn to have two night watches (one night you have one, the next two) and unfortunately I woke right in the middle of my off-watch, convinced I should be on watch.  It was only after I’d got into my jacket and harness that I worked out that I was in my own little world.  Unfortunately I couldn’t sleep and was extremely tired on the 0300-0700 watch.  I am finding the tiredness quite hard work – even simple arithmetic takes a lot of effort (no change there then)

I am a bit confused (no change there).  Despite our doing 137M through the water yesterday, the position data only shows us having done 129M, and our GPS backs that up.  Did we hit a counter-current?  Or are we just weaving all over the ocean…

Saturday night sunset

We did an end-of-week 1 stocktake of the food etc and I’m amazed that we’ve eaten as much as we have – but we are in no danger of running out of food.  I need to increase my crisps intake, and the others need to eat more chocolate.  A hard life.  I cooked a Sunday morning fry-up this morning – bacon, eggs & baked beans; it reminded me of my Sunday mornings in Shoreham but without the 3hr bike ride to justify it all!

Hope all’s well

Ollie x