Race 5 - Day 15
Crew Diary - Race 5 - Day 16
07 January

Sleep is a commodity that needs to be carefully managed on board especially in regards to getting non-boat duty things done. We have a rotor of six different boat duties, in addition to our normal “sail the boat” routines. These vary from keeping the navigation log, doing various boat checks, and cleaning activities.

Most of these involve one person from each of the two watches. As only one person is on watch at a time, it means most tasks are done by one person from the on watch.

Being Mother for a day means preparing and cleaning up for three meals a day. However, it’s the one duty where you don’t do the “sail the boat” bit for a day. You also get taken out of the six hours, six hours, gour hours, four hours, four hours watch system for a day and do your Mothering at the same time as your partner from the other watch.

One side effect of this is you get a little more time to do any non-boat duty or personal things you want to get done. You also potentially get at least eight to ten hours of uninterrupted sleep.

The Clipper Race likes the crew to create videos, blogs and photographs and you can contribute to the media award for the leg.

Anyway, being on Mother yesterday gave me a little time to edit together my video entry for the media award. I’ve submitted in but I’ve no idea when/where it will be put up for viewing: but keep your eyes peeled if your interested.