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We’re officially in the Duldrums now (3 degrees north, 132 west), only 2 knots of wind and sea like glass so we’re running the motor for the time being. Not great for my environmental credentials but nice to be making headway despite the poor conditions. On the plus side it does mean that the sea will be calm enough for me to swim across the equator when we reach it at some point tomorrow. My boring fellow crew mates are too scared to swim across it with me, they’re winding me up about sharks and other monsters but you only live once so I will be donning my bikini and leaping in to make it a day to remember.

Talking of once in a lifetime opportunities I took a shower on deck under a tropical storm yesterday. There’s not many people who can say that they’ve lathered up in a rain storm in the middle of the Pacific. And also, one of the benefits of the duldrums is that with the motor off we were calm enough last night to fire up the bbq. That’s right, I cooked steaks off the back of the boat in the middle of the biggest Ocean on earth!

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