Happy Thanksgiving to all of our supporters in the USA!
We have enough Americans onboard to know that turkey is traditional on these occasions, so we've been looking forward to this for a while, and wondering where Victualler Pete Speight has hidden the big bird
... and on the subject of food, Starboard Watch this morning treated us to the debut performance of Leg 3 crew member Rick Werkheiser's original song "Porridge". Port Watch now have a lot to live up to. You might even get to see it, as the whole show was videoed by a reluctant but surprisingly competent camerawoman Clare Lavin - she was stood on the third step!
I promised you an update on the results of the wind dance: so far, so effective - well done Jonesy! The wind is favourable, the sea is almost flat and the sun is shining. We have been able to keep up a steady 10+ knots directly towards Freo, whilst the fleet updates show the boats ahead of us parked up in another (hopefully the last) wind hole, which yesterday's forecast had filling in just as we approach it. However, we're not counting our (turkey!) chicks until they've hatched, as we still have 600+ nautical miles to go, and Hotelplanner.com is catching us as fast as we're catching the leaders. There is enough of this race left for anything to happen.
Cheers, Rob