A great day surfing down south. Helmsmen are improving their personal bests with boat speeds now in the high teens and early twenties with huge smiles to match.
All is good on board; Paul Bidwell's birthday celebration went well with a very interesting birthday cake. It came out of the oven very forlornly lopsided, but Lizzie Adams fresh from helming-surfing on deck managed to create a masterpiece depicting the Clipper Race yachts surfing down Southern Ocean waves with Unicef riding upon the crest of a wave. I even got to eat a Clipper 70 (although which one is a secret!).
Must dash - time to put a gybe in.
Cheers, Bob.