Be The Jam

Position: Indian Ocean

S 08°54.78'

E 093°44.90'

The going is very slow. Had a really good run for 24 hrs this morning, a record was set; we flew the spinnaker for over 24 hrs none stop. Quite an achievement, the spinnaker is a great sail but it needs constant monitoring to keep it up. The wind finally petered out on us this afternoon; we are currently running on engine. We have to run the engine for a couple of hours per day anyway to recharge the batteries. So using the engine to move us a long isn't so bad, but you have to consider we only have enough fuel to cruise for six days. Considering the crossing is going to take us an estimated month at best, you can imagine fuel is very precious. Without fuel, it means not having it in an emergency and no electricity. So as I was saying progress is slow and it looks like we will be another 10 days at our present speed to get to Chegos Archipelago, then onto Seychelles .

We finally ran out of ice in the fridge today. So nothing will keep for more than half a day: The temperature was really high today without any wind. I got a bit of sun stroke from this morning; a mixture of drinking beer (at a rapid rate as we were running out of ice, the prospect of drinking warm beer giving us all nightmares) and sitting in the sun. Feel OK now though.

Cleaned the oven jets today. We haven't been able to get the oven up to temperature, so we took it to bits and it was full of crap. Cooking jacket potatoes now and looking forward to baking some bread tomorrow!!

Still no fish! Won't talk about that it will just make me feel hungry.