Gee whiz! Guppy has got hot peppers up her tushy and it is the same with the wind!! For the last while the wind has picked up and our current speed has increased to 8 knots [15 kilometres or 9 miles an hour]. The Windpilot windvane [self steering device] can easily take it. There are still 2140 nautical miles [3963 kilometres or 2464 land miles] to go. Now I am getting sick from eating bananas, that have suddenly all of them mellowed at the same time, and I’m trying to dodge the waves that are coming in to wash over me. Today there was a record-breaking number of twenty flying fishes laying on the deck! Hallelujah… And in a miraculous way, they all lay in the middle of the portside gunwale…. Maybe this is because that is the only place on the boat that was not washed over by water…

Laura