Yaaah!!! Good folks, after a couple of hours out, PSP Logistics has her comms up and running again. So I can now enthral you once more with tales of adventures on the high seas!!!
So, the rather fruity weather we had earlier has subsided somewhat, but not before everyone got the opportunity to take the helm for some lively boating activities. We have quite a number of excellent helms now who can steer day or night, smooth or bouncy!! This bodes well for the next leg where we only expect to require bouncy helms people.
This evening our Indian lady Sucheta Jadhav and our English gentleman Clive Watson cooked a delightful spaghetti Bolognese, which is now under the scrutiny of our Italian gentleman Matteo Grassi. This was followed by a rather excellent peach duff.
We are settling into another night at sea and have about 1300 nautical miles until we pass Gough Island. Would be nice to see this little island but then I'm reminded of the many happy hours on Leg 1 when we bobbed off the Cape Verdes; we've taken a team decision to strike admiring islands off our list of objectives.
Well, after a somewhat frustrating start to Leg 2, we are finally making sensible progress in the right direction, but there are still too many miles to cover to start thinking about the delights of Cape Town just yet.
Good to see the rest of the fleet making such speedy progress with most having completed the Elliot Brown Ocean Sprint and sub 1000 nautical miles to run. This should put them into Cape Town in the next four days or so. It looks like it's going to be another close and exciting finish!!
We all on PSP Logistics wish each and every one of them a fast and safe final 1000 nautical miles and hope they have a great run ashore in Cape Town. We do hope to catch up with you before the slipping lines ceremony!!!!
I've been asked to start a dictionary to help some readers better understand my blogs, so here goes with part one.
Duff - originally 'plum duff' a kind of plum suet dessert served at sea on warships but now generally used to describe any form of dessert. I.e. what's for duff tonight?
Sea dust - salt. ‘Put a fair breeze behind the sea dust shipmate!!’ = ‘I say, could you pass me the salt please?’
Umbrella - one of the two most useless things to be found on a sailing vessel
Royal Navy Officer - See umbrella!
Jobation - a stern and severe lecture. I.e. lay aft here for a jobation!!
Stay safe
PSP Logistics xx