Monday 17.08.15 1829: we just heard someone on the radio describing the wind as "light and fluffy" which is a much polite way of saying there's virtually nothing than the way we'd describe the current conditions.
We're round start point, past Salcombe and in Plymouth Bay... The water isn't quite glass like but it's not far off it and were barely making 1.2 knots through the water. Happy hour is an hour and a half away and I don't think it's going to be that happy! To explain, happy hour is an hour with all of us on deck before sundown to have dinner (curry tonight) and check the boat out etc before its dark. It helps us get back into the right pattern having have had 2 4 hours watches during the day to allow for more sleep. Normally it's 3 hours on, 3 hours off so the one watch of 4 in every 24 hours is very welcome.
Apparently the multihulls have gone round the rock, but we can't get enough signal to get on the tracker so just gossip in the radio. It's taken them a long time to get there, so at least it's not just us little guys suffering and it looks windier come tomorrow and Wednesday so fingers crossed it helps the little dudes at the back!
Over and out for now, got to go check my hair in the mirror like water below me.
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