Beautiful sunny day. Days on board running out. 500 miles to go. Captains dinner tomorrow -and we have been invited onto his table! Will have to find something clean to wear. We keep putting the clocks back and think we must be on St. Maarten time by now. We were all given crossing T shirts yesterday so there was much swapping of sizes. Most of us wore them to dinner and we looked like an aged school outing. A busy day playing deck golf!

750 miles to go and it has rained all night and only now at noon is showing signs of blue sky. Later- still cloudy but light winds and a gentle rolling sea. Beginning to wonder if we will be able to walk a straight line when we reach terra firms.

A wet day for our Olympics. Bill was in one of the teams. Events included sack race, spoon diving, flag raising and holding breathe underwater.. That's what the photo is of. Medal ceremony is later but Bill thinks his team came equal first. We also have a birthday dinner to go to - we have had a quiet patch but the record is 5 birthdays on the same night. 1000 miles to go.

A sort of water skiing only possible when the pool water is on the move. Need a lesson in wave harmonics to understand why it starts. The slopped water heads to our cabin but our high step keeps us dry inside. Bill has just been to the service and we have a crew pantomime tonight. Seems a little unseasonal in this temperature - we are forgetting how near Christmas we are.

The photo is of a rigger rehanging a mended sail. He and another have been up there for 2 hours- fortunately the swell is very even today but they are really high up. A busy day today - another treasure hunt and a picture quiz. People are using the pool more and we are waiting for a noisy Canadian family to stop hogging the pool. The "mom" is large and there isn't room for us yet. 25 30n. 39 43 w