Friday 22 August 0056: So much for sunshine for happy hour this evening. What sunshine there was went away pretty quickly and the damp of an Irish summer set in, added to by the waves washing over the decks and occasionally giving us all a nice salty shower!
Steffan cooked us dinner without being ill (just!) and then we corrected our course slightly to get ourselves to the edge of the tss where we can turn East to home... Well to lizard point, where will we then turn slightly into Plymouth.
First though I have to navigate us past the scilies. The wind, combined with the pitch black enduced by the weather, means helming is difficult so Andy is at the wheel and it feels.like were flying... I am now "off watch" - for tonight this means sitting at the chart table wrapped in my sleeping bag to keep warm (I'm slightly damp around the edges) do I can keep a steady look at the chart plotter, the paper. charts as back up and the AIS. It's going to be a long long night...
Once we're past the scilies I will be able to relax slightly, but both Andy and I are going to be shattered (more so than now and the others won't exactly be fresh faced either) so must make sure we don't relax too much... There are still. A few boats out here with us so we mustn't take our foot off the pedal.
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