Wednesday 4th

Wednesday 4th August

THERE IS NO WIND!

As Skipper always says there is only good news and moderate news. The good
news for today is that the end of the race has been brought forward to
finish at 1345 tomorrow as otherwise it would have taken us until Sunday,
and the moderate news is that we have to still get to Hartlepool in NO wind.
Due to not moving and at one point moving backwards, people began to
entertain themselves by reading books, sleeping, painting nails and
eventually jumping ship..

The swim was exactly what we needed; with jumping of Rona, swimming and
generally splashing about.shampoo even made a well needed appearance! The
swim was 200 miles from anywhere and in 90 metres of beautiful bright blue
sea. Once we had dried off we enjoyed a well earned hot chocolate with
marshmallows and a cookie. Everyone is now feeling refreshed and ready to
rock into Hartlepool.

A short sing song is now raising the spirits of the crew even higher.
Hopefully it might even encourage Rona to keep moving. We're kind of moving
at the minute so fingers crossed this little bit of breeze stays with us and
fills Rona II sails again. We are due some North Westerly winds from
tomorrow morning so hopefully we can shoot down the coast to Hartlepool with
ease. We're all looking forward to hot showers, oh and seeing our family and
friends!

Mother watch has been very relaxing today, with little to no wind there
wasn't
much rocking so feeding all 23 of us was no task at all. We have made fresh
bread, pancakes and a two layered moose with Rona II decorations!