Leg 8: race 12 day 13 Woken at 5.30 we are still on New York time so it's actually 10.30 in uk. Cloudy outside still have code 3 up. The wind had died down so bobbing along. Heard we had overtaken mission performance so now in 8th place. Derry lmax have nearly finished the course extension and are about 300 miles ahead of us. Gutted we haven't done better! I helped sophie and Caroline with sail repair of the code 2. Had a look at the chart we are getting clos...

Leg 8 : race 12 : day 12 Woken at 5.30 then on deck for 6am. The code 1 was up, worked out that we had taken 30 hours to repair it. It was good to see it flying but sadly an hour before we were due to come off shift it popped ! Not the repair but a new tear so soul destroying after all our hard work! Quickly got it down and put the code 3 up. Took around 10 minutes to do this ! Finished shift at 10. Came down below washed up and washed my hair / the water was co...

Leg 8 : race 12 : day 11 Carl woke me at 7 am. Couldn't believe how long I had slept for. He had been on deck since 5.30am as the hallard on the spinnaker had snapped so tigers watch helped the dragons get it down. Sadly it got ripped so more sail repair ! Helped sophie to machine the code 1 and we finally had it fixed by noon and bagged it up ready to be flown again. I now know how sophie must feel every time a spinnaker gets torn, all the hard work repairing...

Leg 8 race 12 day day 10 Had slept really well up at 5.30am sophie and I were on Sail repair all day so using sewing machine to repair the code 1: the sewing machine is called grace named by Lindsey. Cold on deck and misty and damp glad to be down below in shorts and t shirt : they have full foulies and woolly hats on deck. Crew moral is low with some of the crew due to course extension and we are low on gas so no bread making which Sarah isn't happy about. Soph...

Leg 8 race 12 day 9 On deck for 6am it was cloudy and damp. Had code 2 spinnaker up and the wind had picked up. Was only on deck for an hour when I was asked to go down below to help sophie fix the code 1: it was really badly ripped and sophie and I took all day to patch it. Bob received a sati light phone call to inform us the race was being extended as they couldn't have us in Derry before 7th July. The crew were really fed up ! We were due to arrive Monday ...