It has gone quiet at sea on what may be the penultimate night before reaching Cape Town.

The wind is soft and sea state smooth, the distance to finish is within 350 nautical miles. In these conditions, we just try to keep the boat moving and hopefully that is in the right direction. This could not be more different that the 24 hours we sailed 329 nautical miles!

Overall, we have not seen many dolphins or whales, but today we saw both. The dolphins really seemed to enjoy racing along at 12 - 15 knots with us, leaping fully out of the waves. We have continuously seen bird life across the South Atlantic, unless it’s the same ones following us. We have had to remove squid from the deck a few times too.

While we drift along there could be a temptation to get in and remove that weed around the top of the rudder and I think I have the right candidate, as one of our crew wants to cage dive with great whites in the Cape. Why wait and pay for it, when we can give you that experience right here right now!