Well, we have been eight weeks out on the ocean by now, fifty-six days in a small boat, one thousand three hundred ‘n forty four hours on the oars. Time has no other relevance to us any more.
In all that time we estimate that we have stood up, fully weight bearing for a total of one hour 56 minutes. For two minutes each day we stand up in the gully to brush our teeth. We sometimes manage to do it without holding on these days . . . . such sea farers we have become! The rest of the time we lie down, sit, crouch or squat. At least we’ll have something other than champagne to blame for falling over in Antigua.
We’ve completely ran out of chocolate, it was our own stupid mistake (how did two girls get it so wrong?!). We have no spare battery for the compass light, my silly mistake again. But we're finding ways to navigate without it ... and breathe a sigh of relief every morning that we are still on track!
But we’re both determined young ladies, and we won’t give the swell an upper-hand. We thought no one could be more stubborn than us two, but the wind still tries to out do us. We just won’t concede to that, and we’re very pleased to say that things are looking up. Herdip got very excited with her “wave action” last night (her words!). I wasn’t quiet as excited as I had the top hatch open for some breeze during my break, and got completely drowned by one! My chilly con carne meal was now full of sea water! Double yuck! She suffered herself later on though in one of the biggest, longest, wettest squalls we've had since we've been out here.
We’ve responded to the challenge differently, but we’re both very much still united as friends. This is a mammoth adventure; a journey we hope will soon come to an end. Weekends for us are the hardest; we’re missing out on fun with our friends. All being well there’s just two more to go, so we plead with you don’t forget about us at the weekends, send your witty stories, juicy gossip and messages of support so we can smile and chuckle between our times on the oars. If there's no gossip, just make something up, we won't know the difference ... (no jokes though please, we still have the lot from Christmas to read).
We made it down to 750nm at 19:30GMT today and look forward to our last toffee sweets and tea to celebrate tonight. yummy!
More people are now planning to be in Antigua for our arrival, which is GREAT! WE CAN’T WAIT! And you never know, Duncan might even get an ear infection that would delay their homeward bound date a few days …(sorry Dunc) …although his ear might need to fall off waiting for us two!
A little joke to finish …
Knock knock
Who’s there?
Herdip Herdip who?
Herdip in, the ocean will be finished before you know it!
…we’ll let you guess which boat in the fleet came up with that one!
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