Well, after a hard-earned stopover, during which much drinking, partying and sleeping was done in between boat work, everyone rocked up for our epic trip with bright eyes, bushy tails and clean knickers.

Upon leaving, we took one of the riggers along with us for the parade of sail although we did hand him back to the accompanying rib before our departure.

The audience to see us off was somewhat smaller than in London but a special thank you to all the friends and family who rocked up to see us off. After a brief parade of sail up the river we were able to get ready for our ‘round the cans’ race which was a precursor to heading off. We were able to make a cheeky port start and ended up third at the first mark- this was really important as it helped our mindset for the real race.

Overnight we made good ground initially with the wind forward of the beam. We headed south and west as the wind veered.

Currently we are under spinnaker travelling marginally faster than average turtle.

As the sun begins to rise, we are looking forward to a beautiful day of downwind sailing.

Our usual love and regards from the crew on CV20 - Imagine your Korea.

The past twelve hours have been rather gentle sailing, flat seas light and occasionally absent winds and lots of time with the kite up, occasionally we have had to revert to our wind seeker when the winds couldn't find sufficient enthusiasm from the wind to keep our code one inflated.

Albeit slowly, we are clearly making some ground south, the nights are hot and the days really hot, we have been talking of deck showers using sea water and buckets or the fire hose.

As if to confirm our passage south, the sun has been jumping out of the horizon in the morning like a startled Gazelle and falling from the sky in the evening faster than the pound against the dollar.

We have gybed several times in search of wind and to run away from the incoming wind holes, all the time we are being teased by being able to see more winds just beyond our horizon.

We have an issue with our power retention which we are working on at the moment, the by product is that the generator has been on for quite some time and the unintended consequence of that is that the electrical bread maker has been really busy...yum yum!

Big thanks to Brian for doing engineering tasks beyond his duties (like monitoring the batteries every 5 min) and Richard H who has bribed the crew with cakes and bread.

Usual love and regards from the crew on Imagine your Korea