todays blog
Pyrjuakali
Sun 3 Dec 2017 14:18
Hey todays blog
Our scheduled arrival date into St Lucia is the 9th December. This is
slightly later than expected due to the battery issues and light winds we
experience earlier in the race. As a result we are having to ensure we ration
enough fuel, food and water to last us another week. Today we continue on our
same course, heading south west. The winds are getting stronger the further
south we go and we hope to give ourselves a good angle running into the finish
line.
The weather is getting increasingly hot and humid the further south we go,
this is making sleep fairly difficult particularly during the afternoon. Over
the next 2 days we will be turning our clocks back 2 hours which will then put
us on St Lucia time.
We have split into two watches, port and starboard. There are four people
on each watch. We are on a 48 hour roster. One watch will sail from 6am to
11.30am then we have happy hour in which everyone is awake. We have lunch
together and have a team meeting to discuss progress, rations, tactics etc. At
12.30pm the second watch takes over until 6pm. The night is split into three
four hour watches, 6pm - 10pm, 10pm- 2am and 2am to 6am. This means that on the
second day the watch that did the morning shift will now have the morning off
and will be doing the afternoon watch. The system works well and allows us to
get regular sleep.
In the next 24 hours we will pass the "1000 miles to go" point and will
look to put our spinnaker sail up for a fast run to the finish line.
Matt
S.Y Jua
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