Race 13 - Day 4
Crew Diary - Derry-Londonderry, Northern Ireland to Den Helder, Netherlands
21 July

Aaron Lomas

Team Mission Performance

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More random observations

Oversharing is definitely a thing. Worst culprits: Andy on LMAX Exchange and our very own Greg and Tambo

Inna will always be last one standing. Whatever the game. Even if it's not a game.

Only 9 days to go until it is safe to watch disaster at sea movies.

Starboard watch is now officially Plague watch

Girls generally scream like girls.

There are many ways to tie a thumbknot. Some of them work.

Apparently race start is not the time to be “f**king around with pegs”

When you are sleeping on the floor by the forward heads, you know it's not a good day.

Jules - getting the Most Improved Pegger award isn't a compliment when your first attempt is “here, have a peg”

Your last trip up the mast is a sentimental one.

The Russians ARE coming.

The word Kabouter is my favourite Dutch word.

Pegging means very different things to different people. Sometimes this needs to be clarified.

It's surprising how pleased some people can be when told that their Harry Potter character is Argus Filch.

There is such a thing as too many skittles.

I'm well aware that race start is not the time to be “f**king around with pegs”. I'm not a complete idiot.

It's not often that other people talk themselves up more than I do. But I'm pretty modest by the standards of this boat.

There are some sounds music can't drown out.

To some people, Inappropriate Underwear Day is just another day.

Being hung by a loop in a yankee sheet falling through a tiny window into the accommodation area whilst leaning forward into the engine bay to swap the water inlets over during a tack was about a foot from being a very, very, very unlucky way to go........

Helen on a bad day looks like Hermione after failing an exam.

That moment when you're not sure if you qualify for the healthy aft heads, or the D&V forward heads is a really anxious moment.

Moving Colin's ego to the high side of the boat is worth 1.8 knts of boat speed. It was only 1.3 when we left Derry.

Clipper's annoying habit of putting in the full name and race legs someone is doing really upsets the flow of a blog. But they'll do it anyway. Even though one knows a good reason why they do it.

There are some things you can't unsee.

Different people approach writing a blog in very different ways.

Mary is fine, though you should see what happened to the yankee sheet.

Greg still hasn't found the pegs put on him at race start.