After setting off in our formations again last night we had a call from Jackobel to ask if they could catch up and join our group because Jacques has terrible toothache and wants to get into Salalah as soon as possible. They joined the back of our group just after six this morning .

Jacques has been suffering for over a week now, but is encouraged to know that Blue Water Rally have arranged a dental appointment in Salalah and he will soon be there.

Because of a lack of communication last night, Jackamy were the only yacht to pick up additional fuel from the other group so we are motoring faster than the other group because we are trying to run at optimum/economical revs so that we achieve the best speed from the lowest fuel consumption.

Our group seem confident that we will have enough fuel to share around, if necessary, to get us all safely in to Salalah in the next couple of days.

Today we have beautiful sunshine again and small dolphins playing at the bow. During the morning we motor sailed past another rally in two groups of six and five yachts, it was comforting to see other yachts out here !

We had an amusing incident yesterday:

We were monitoring a small unidentified vessel on radar travelling ahead of us.

There was also a big commercial ship passing by it, so Mark decided to contact the commercial ship to ask if there was anything suspicious about the vessel.

His English was not very good, and when mark asked " Was the boat he had just passed a safe target ?".  He misinterpreted us and thought we were telling him the other boat was a pirate boat.  He made a very quick 90 degree turn and disappeared!