Race 12 - Day 15
Crew Diary - New York, USA to Derry-Londonderry, Northern Ireland
05 July

Over 10 months on a boat and nearly a circumnavigation under my belt and I still get a little queasy when heeled over during mother watch. I've been pretty lucky in that when I’m on mother the wind seems to die and I have a nice flat playing field, or we're under spinnaker and then its not too bad either. I was on mother yesterday with the lovely Pippa, and all was well and flat, not much wind so racing wise we were all a little anxious but then suddenly Kappow! Back on our ear again at 45 degrees. Thank goodness I’d already made the bread and dinner because I just couldn’t function in the galley at that angle and unfortunately had to let Pip serve without me. So after a nice long sleep I woke up and we were once again at a reasonable angle, ready to serve brekkie.

The wind had come and gone again. This would be the pattern for the next 12 hrs.

Hooray for us though, all this light stuff and plenty of time hanging around Madeira on Leg 1 means we are actually quite good in light winds so we've been playing catch up today. Early this morning we had Garmin on our horizon floating about like us, they disappeared off in a different direction when the wind did fill in but according to the scheds we are gaining. Lets Get, Garmin!

And even if we don't what a great race Da Nang-Viet Nam have had. We are nobodies worry but very occasionally we do manage to surprise people and pull something out the bag. Hopefully this will be another leg like it. So Thank you to whoever made THAT decision to extend the race... if you hadn't we wouldn’t be able to play catch up.

A big thumbs up from me :)

Looking forward to Derry-Londonderry and all its shenanigans, especially seeing my folks and my sister Fraiza. And also for all the cuddles and fun with a boy.

Love and light

Lara xxxx