Race 10 - Day 13
Crew Diary - Race 10 Day 13
19 April

Questions, questions, questions...

After 8 months at sea, you might expect the Our Isles and Oceans RTW’ers to have "discovered themselves", had the “Race of their Lives" and worked out what this race is about by now.

But reflecting this week (in the midst of a helming session - always a good time for random thoughts) it struck me that many of the questions we ask ourselves and each other now are still largely the same as they were back on Leg 1... some philosophical, some practical, some important, some trivial, some likely familiar to all crew across the fleet, some specific to our little world of Our Isles and Oceans.

Here's a few to start from...

- How will we ever describe this experience to friends and family?

- Why can no photo ever properly capture the scale and fluidity of ocean waves?

- How many of us will still be here racing (or back here racing) when the race reaches Leg 8?

- Which small bugbear of daily life on a Clipper 70 most needs fixing on the next generation Clipper fleet?

- Why do we like the Our Isles and Oceans three watch system so much?

- How much colder will it get as we traverse the ice limit?

- Can we squeeze any more layers under the Musto foulies in response?

- Will we ever run the tack retrieval line right first time?

- How many more deep cleans will it take to find Diorbhail's phone (and how much more of Patrick's kit will we find in the process)?

- Who stole Skye watch's fruit and nut bar?

- How exactly does this boat get through quite so much kitchen roll?

- What will we all do next once the Clipper Race is over?

- Which crew might reappear as future AQP’s or Skipper’s?

- How many of us will ever cross another ocean?

- Has this experience really changed us?

- What will be the next “Race of our Lives”?

Yes, we have a better idea now of some of the answers but no, I have no idea who ate the chocolate.

David Spence