We have now been at sea for just over four days, this is day 5 of our trip. We hopefully have about 9 days left. We are 1,524 miles from the finish.
We have seen two pods of dolphin, lots and lots of flying fish, and a huge tuna about 4 feet long that followed us in our stern wave, in the shade of the solar panels, for about 3 hours. We saw it jump clear out of the water at one point. Unfortunately it didn’t bite our lure so we still haven’t caught any fish!
We have been sailing along in quite light winds so not going as fast as we would like. I (Fergus) saw 9.7 knots at one point but mostly it has been 6 to 7 knots. Hopefully we will get more wind in a couple of days.
We have been reading our kindles a lot. Mummy and Daddy bought us both new books before the crossing. I (Archie) got a set of five new Percy Jackson books but I have finished four already and will finish the last one today. I might have to read them all again! I (Fergus) got a few new Dog Man books and I’ve read all of them at least twice already!
We’ve been enjoying listening to the homeschool histories podcast. Both of us thought our favourite one was about the Roman gladiators. The Romans would pitch different gladiators against each other like a Pokémon battle. We also liked the one about Cleopatra. The rulers of Egypt were very unimaginative with names, they were all called Ptolemy! Cleopatra had to marry her own little brother- yuck! Cleopatra lived closer to the building of the channel tunnel than the building of the pyramids, they were already ancient history when she was alive.
Tom and Lauren have been practicing navigating us by sextant using the Sun, moon, stars and planets. It takes a lot longer than looking at the GPS!
Tom and Lauren told us about a secret murder game that they play on Prolific. So far Daddy has murdered Tom in the cockpit with a winch handle. We have until the end of the trip to try and do our own murders.
We still haven’t seen many of the other boats but occasionally we see a sail on the horizon for a couple of hours. None of the boats have been very close so far.
