We have been at sea for 6 days and we are still talking to each others! Last night, skipper Bernard was very tired and he did not wake-up for his watch despite 3 attempts from Marc, the navigator. So Marc very kindly did another 2-hour shift.

The forecast was for no wind again today and tomorrow but we are getting a bit of southerly wind. This is kind of unusual in this part of the ocean and for that time of the year but we will take anything! The weather is supposed to improve by Monday. We get some occasional rain showers which we don’t mind because they generally bring stronger wind.

Children hour: every day at 5:30 PM, there is an informal radio party on short wave. This is where the boats are exchanging trivia, jokes, fish stories, etc… This is the counterpart to the formal position report of the morning roll call. The sailing instructions state: “racers are cautioned that not all statements made during this period may be accurate”. So listeners beware!

Right now we are doing 5 to 6 knots with the asymmetric spinnaker up. We can’t complain too much. Temperature is in the 24 to 26 degrees centigrade range, definitely warmer than it was in San Francisco.

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