Good morning! The past24 hours have been pretty uneventful. We are sailing through the Doldrums Corridor at a steady course and speed in somehow steady winds (who would have thought!?). The majority of the fleet has entered the corridor and it seems it has split into two groups - one going east, one going west. We will see in a few days which tactic pays off. Life on board is good and the steady breeze makes the heat more bearable. Since we left Liverpool, I had been sleeping in my life jacket on the bean bag next to the navigation station or on deck and today was the first time I slept in my completely clean and unused bunk. Heaven! With the forward hatch open, the sail locker becomes one of the coolest and most popular places on the boat and more and more crew are found to sleep there instead of their bunks. As Bernd Weigell and Andy Hudson are currently busy stitching on the poppers for the spinnakers in there too, we might have to start a rotation system to allocate who is allowed inside and when. With just over400 nautical miles to go within the corridor we are through the first third and should be through the second when I’m writing again tomorrow morning. Until then. Fair winds and a following sea! Chris |