Day 5

No one is sick onboard Arkyla today! First time since she left Las Palmas! We even got a bit more wind so sails are flapping less and morale  lifted. We have had champagne sailing so far - boredom is the biggest problem! When seaweed got stuck in the (new, working) hydro generator, we were as excited kids at Christmas, and were elbowing to be the one to get to go down on the transom and figure out how to dislodge it. The answer turned out to be simple: we had to stop her and lift up the hydro generator. All gazillion other contraptions failed. We have a watch schedule: between 9pm and 9 am we do 3 hour watches. 9 am to 9 pm we do 4 hour watches. Today we added an hour to an afternoon watch and turned our clocks back an hour since we are want to be on Grenada time when we get there. We also take turn being cook or house (cleaning). That is, Michael, Mark and I do. James is not in that rotation as he is skipper every day checking for chafe, leaks, engine etc. Today his job was extra glamorous and he also fixed loose toilet seats.  On other news: it’s getting warm. Just put away my night watch outfit of rigging pants and sweater. Shorts and t-shirt feels too warm.  Mark and Michael are sampling and testing the water twice a day for a log James is doing for SeaLabs. I heard that the surface water is 28C by now. It’s crazy. Not good… And no  sightings of any life. Less bioluminescence than last time. On a related note: mark saw a Japanese (!) whale fishing boat on his watch a couple of nights ago..   1616 miles to go until Grenada. What happened year 1616…?