Race 2 - Day 6
Crew Diary - Race 2 Day 6
21 September

Our first week is slowly approaching and we cannot believe how slow time is passing, sailing in an ocean race is a true 24 hour process and it never stops, time passes slowly. Our watch has a morning prayer group meeting before we start to talk things over that we are concerned about and get thoughts out into the open, it is vital when we are all eating, sleeping and working in such a confined space. A fairly quiet day today, a few gybes lunch was ham and cheese wraps with soup. We are fortunate that as a team we bought a bread maker for the yacht which means we get fresh bread every day assuming that the generator is working, we also have a cake made each day from a cake mix bag which is very welcome, probably that most of us would not buy at home but when at sea anything goes, well almost. The evening shift was to be an eventful shift. We changed the spinnaker sail as the wind dropped but after all the effort of hoisting a small tear appeared and we had to lower it again straight away, all in all about 30 minutes work. We pulled another sail up from the locker and raised that one, guess what, that to had a rip in it so down it came, we now had two sails down below waiting for repair Nick W and James spent almost four hours repairing the sails with sticky tape and a sewing machine.

When we woke from our sleep they were still working and we found that some other parts of the sail rig had failed and needed to be replaced. Work on board is a 24 hour job and never ends, but we are all helping out and getting on with it, we are doing our best to achieve better results for you all as well as us, you are all important to us.