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Dear Readers

I am afraid standards are slipping amongst the crew as there was no rush of volunteers to pen this message to you all. A bit of wind and sea and they all disappear off to their bunks. Well that has always been the case with the chef who van sleep for Jersey. He usually gets more sleep on the boat than he ever does at home but the work experience lad we have found is no better being comatose on most occasions, with mouth wide open, dribbling and making some ungodly noises. He has no real excuse for this as he is still a lad. He tells me his family would recognise this condition. Poor them I would say.

Just before breakfast today, with much moaning about having to do this before eating. , we repaired the damaged  reef line with much sewing from the tactician and me. To do it in the conditions was a fine team effort No sooner had we done it than the wind piped up to 25 kts plus which we have had virtually ever since so we are in for another fast day. We now conclude that the electrical issue is down to tired batteries which will hold a charge but cannot maintain voltage. There is talk that I bought cheaply on batteries and rope and the many other things that have gone wrong. As if I would?

We continue to bowl along at a great rate but do not seem to be doing as well positionally as we has hoped but we should do better in the lighter conditions as we are competing in class C with boats that are bigger and heavier than us and revel in these bigger breezes. Conditions should ease by late on Monday and we look forward to that and some sunshine which has been fleeting at best. No doubt we are warmer than you are though. T shirts and shorts during the day and light weight oilies at night for the rain.

That’s all for now.

The Owner