Leg 5 - race 7 - day 16 Came off shift at 7am wrote crew diary then went back on deck at 7.30 to take photos of the sun rise. Went to bunk for a sleep. Still under spinnaker and rocking gently along. Woke at 10.30 had breakfast/ lunch Chicken wraps (freeze dried chicken ) wasn't too bad. All the fruit has run out now and I am craving fresh fruit and vegetables. I never get spots but got lots on my chin so now making sure I use fresh water each day to wash my ...

Leg 5 - race 7 -day 15 Woke at 1pm laid in bunk for a while listening to music and reading my book ( 2 nd book now) twilight between oceans by m. L. Steaman. It's 1st February today. As we are doing so well we thought we would be in Vietnam early but clipper have changed the course as they don't want us in before 17th Feb! Bit of a pain as we were looking forward to spending more days in Vietnam! So now I am on a 17 day count down. Can't believe I have been at ...

Leg 5 - race 7 - day 14 9am laying in my bunk hearing a lot of banging : they were bringing spinnaker down (another rip more sewing! ) offered to help but they said for me to rest as sophie working though and will need me later. Got up at 12 and helped wool spinnaker and get it up on deck. Went up on deck 2.45 for shift til 7pm had spinnaker up and all went smoothly. Sophie and jane have been using sewing machine to fix the other spinnaker all day. Weather was...

Leg 5 - race 7 - day 13 Got up at 1pm read my book for a while had lunch and sophie helped me to wash my hair, it was so greasy! Had to do in in a bucket of salt water but very tricky as the boat was so heeled over. Up on deck for 3pm- 7pm. Put the spinnaker up and spent the rest of the shift trimming this. Found out we are now in 6th position. We have been working so hard : anything can happen but so want to get a podium ! Came off shift at 7pm cleaned the gal...