Nasdaq seemed to spend the first half of yesterday in its own private, drizzly grey little wind hole, which made the British crew slightly homesick on US Independence Day. In the absence of either sun or horizon for sextant-fiddling, morale was improved by distraction activities such as hoisting and dropping the Yankee 1, Windseeker, Code 1 and Staysail every few minutes as we tried to work our way through the light patch and back into some decent wind. Since dinner time, we have been reaching along nicely with steady wind across a flat sea and upping our mileage again.

Today's photo shows Nasdaq's US crew holding their own reenactment of the Boston Tea Party to celebrate 4th July: Linda Mcdavitt (Texas) and Kathi Lind-Mottram (California) were assisted by Nasduck and her American cousin Liberty Duck who joined the crew in New York. Phil "Phyllis" Wilkinson (dual US and UK nationality) felt deeply conflicted about the whole affair and abstained by trimming the kite, and John Ericksen and Richard Petrie produced hot dogs in the finest American tradition from the Nasdaq Bistro for the occasion.

Cheers, Rob