Loco

I’ve had a telling off for sending and receiving long emails so as much as I delight at getting news from home it will have to be condensed, i.e. no more extensive commentary on football games, as much as I enjoyed it.

So, in the briefest way possible:

In answer to your question, no engine does not warrant the use of flares, and seeing as though we haven’t seen any ships at all in over a week they would be wasted. In case of emergency we would contact our various puddle-jump friends with whom we check in with on the radio daily. At least two of them are only a day or so sail away so if worst came to worst we have a back up.

Yesterday marked half way.

Wasted opportunity in that none of the imagination-devoid men on this yacht are utilising the opportunity of being this far from civilisation to cultivate comedy beards. If I were a man I would almost certainly be experimenting with a variety of piratical styles including, a Jolly Roger goatie, a Blue Beard full facial crumb catcher, or a Jack Sparrow dreadlocked affair complete with beads. Wasted says I, aaaarrgggh!

Very rough night last night, you don’t know what you’ve got til it’s gone eh? A bed that doesn’t move all night long, what a luxury. It’s like being in a hammock that is strung up between two washing machines, mounted on a bucking bronko, on a train, on a seesaw, balancing on the edge of a cliff…

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