All go on the Atlantic

What an eventful couple of days. While we rowed away in the baking sun we were happy enough to see a few grey clouds gathering and a pick up in the breeze. Shortly afterwards we noticed a rainbow appear on the horizon, we've seen a couple already during our time out here, and love the clarity of their colour, but this one turned out to be out of this world. Over a few minutes it grew in diameter, and got brighter and brighter. Changing right under our eyes it then became a full rainbow, going from one side of the horizon to the other, and to make it even more incredible, a little distance further on, a second rainbow appeared too. We were both in awe at this truly beautiful scene. If only we couldrow fast enough I'm sure we would have found our fortune at the bottomof that rainbow!

The calm seas continued and we finally rowed our way into 17.59 degrees north which gave for scenes of HAIRY high fives and we’re sure we saw the HISC burgee flicker with a bit more excitement than it had done for days.This morning Herdip noticed a massive cargo ship on the horizon. It reminded her of the Tower of London. We tried to make radio contact, but with no luck … so we’re guessing it must have been on autopilot; scary thought if it had been on a direct bearing towards us. Less than a few hours later we saw a small sailing boat with an orange sail in the far distance. The Atlantic had become as crowded as the M25 on a Friday night all of a sudden! Again we tried to make radio contact in the hope that some friendly faces would come past but to no avail.

It was great great news to then hear that team Pura Vida were the first of the fleet to land in Antigua today. WELL DONE BOYS! We studied our navigation course with them back in May last year, and they provided much needed laughs in what was otherwise a pretty intense week. If it worked for them then surely there’s no reason why it shouldn’t work for us. Pura Vida were also the very kind supplier of our fabulous (esp) toilet paper, thank you Carl. We might even just forgive you for not turning round with more supply two weeks ago when we told you that we’d run out!...

The weather has now picked up to a strong north easterly – which two days ago we would have begged for, but which now means that we are battling against it to stop us from being pushed too far south, and below Antigua - making Trinidad a new landing destination. I think we just have to admit we haven’t got a clue what we’re doing! Lets just keep on keeping our fingers crossed …