This racing malarky is relentless my hat goes off to the fleet around us we are trimming and grinding and tweaking - it keeps us on our toes. Also thanks to the Mother Watch for keeping us fed and watered and thanks to the housekeepers for keeping us clean and tidy, and to the engineers who keep this boat ticking over.

To anyone who does any woodwork, they may be familiar with the expression ‘measure twice cut once’, I say this because I may have gybed a wee bit early as we are passing the Canaries, Fuerteventura is now to the west of us. And, well I guess it will have looked like a ballsy move but it was a mistake so I’m just hoping the helms person can steer a deep course of 120° to 150° apparent wind. Right, I'm going to try and get 40 winks.

Night all - will find out in 4 hours (fingers and toes are crossed)

AQPs note: from time change comes chaos

Everything was running fine onboard Ha Long Bay, Viet Nam, watch after watch, helming skills are being polished, trim being grinded, nights were following days and pods of dolphins were following our way down the coast of Morocco. Since we are traveling west, the sun sets and rises later every day for us.

Then came this idea as an evidence: it's the end of my watch, 0530 onboard, I'm about to go to sleep and it's still pitch black, 4 long hours in the darkness. When I see the oncoming watch popping their head by the companion way, can't really see them actually, since it's dark, and it must feel terrible for them to come on deck as it's still pitch black, like those winter days were you have to go to school or to work and you feel like you never see daylight.

Anyway, I realise it might be time to change time onboard. If the reports we have to send to the office and the land people have to be on UTC time, we are free to set our own watches to the time we please. So off I am to suggest this to Josh, who himself suggest it to the crew. And from a perfectly functioning boat, we are now in complete chaos, the loss of our mast or rudder would have been less problematic it seems.

We are just off watch and I can hear the crew on deck panicking about if they have to move their watches forward or backward or if apple time will agree with this and below deck is no better. In the Galley, Jacqueline and Meta are arguing if we are then going to travel back in time or forward, when Stephen at the nav station is staring at the logbook, astonished, wondering if he should add one hour on UTC our subtract one. In the middle of the chaos, Manuel, who might be the only one who understood the change, plans to set everyone's watch to a different time when asked to help. I hope our team will survive this paradox in time, who knows, we might be one hour ahead of the competition for a bit... or is it behind?

Whether you read this on time or not, one thing guys: time doesn't change, we do.