Race 1 - Day 32
Crew Diary - Race 1 Day 32: Liverpool to Punta del Este
21 September

By Graham Hill and Greg Glover

Well, here we are again in the galley. How time flies.

It's getting near the end of Leg 1 and there has been a food stock take and nothing is where it was before in our central kitchen area. It's also Day 32 and the first thing we find missing from our day bag is the kitchen roll. So, who has been raiding the bags? With no option, we have to carry out our own raid.

Breakfast: we are out of bacon and there is very little powdered milk for cereals so porridge is the order of the day with bread. A staple Clipper Race breakfast. In fact, very good bread from Jock & Mike's bake yesterday. But what to put on it? One jar of peanut butter left and plenty of Nutella. Our ready-steady-cook ingredients could do with some extras so the hunt is on. Lunch is easy but dinner needs some mash and it takes some finding. We also decide to serve a sweet; we have lots of custard and the Madeira cake turns out well. Roseann digs out some lemon drizzle and Tony makes a guest appearance in the galley to rustle up the custard. One of his specialities.

With just over 300nms to go and potentially 36 hours left racing everyone is starting to think about life ashore. First drink, first meal...has to be a steak, doesn't it? There is still a lot of racing to do with the fleet all converging and close. With over 6,000nms of racing done so far, it is amazing that everyone is so close. We, as a crew, now need to stay focused on the race as it isn't over until the line. The forecast shows a potential area of no wind on our track which we will meet tomorrow morning. Fingers crossed it isn't as bad as a few days ago.