Started foiling this year and finally found an afternoon to practice. A lot of falls. Knees scrapped to the bone, but managed a few foiling runs. It’s magical. It’s fun to suck at something and know that 10,000 hours later I’ll forget what it was like sucking.

It’s a bit surreal, we’ve completed 6,700nm in the last month. It flew by. If anything, gave Ray and I the taste to keep going. Confidence in this boat, and respect but also courage to head deep to sea. Ray is getting off here, we’re both flying home on Friday for the weekend. I’m blessed that I’ll be able to attend my friends funeral. Then back June 2nd for last leg direct to the Chesapeake to complete her maiden journey. Bucket list ✅

A large clan of spinner dolphins hang in the bay. We were heading back from a snorkelling session and they joined us and showed us their stuff.

470nm from St Helena and the clouds have settled since yesterday. We have to sail pretty deep to keep our heading to the island but we had some fun puffs this morning. Surfing down swell at 20kts like there’s nothing to it. Ray and I played our first match of Windigo. A sailing game created in 1968 that we found on Etsy. Serendipity connected us to that game, likely the only one left that isn’t collecting dust in someone’s grandparents attic. We’re looking forward to a few nights sleep at the island. With our speed, and swell directions it’s noisy and I’ve had trouble getting more than an hour sleep here and there.

We’re 4 days into the first leg of our 8,000nm passage. The first stop is St Helena. If the wind gods would have stayed happy we would have been there in another 3 days…but alas the wind has died off and we’re huffing and puffing into the asym. We’re in the groove now, eating well, and having a great time. With 4 onboard, the watches are decent. 4h during the day and 3 at night. It means that you have every 4th day without a night watch. No fish yet, well a huge one and took and almost all our line and that we lost. Our sushi kit is waiting patiently. The boat rocks, has great power but the sail plan makes it easy to gear down quickly. We love the Genoa and Code wing on wing for easy night sailing. Treat surface area is as big as the asym! We’re halving a hockey watch party tonight, Ottawa vs Toronto in the playoffs. It’s going to be late, but our South African crew are keen to drink beer and cheer with us.