received 15.12.08 1500 GMT
A rather quiet and uneventful day today. We are experiencing very light breezes as we slowly sail across the southern coast of Sri Lanka. At the moment, we are sitting in first place with both Telefónica Blue and Puma only a couple of miles to leeward. While we have generally been able to maintain a reasonable boatspeed though the water, adverse currents of up to 3 knots are really putting a halt to the distance we are covering over the ground.
Life onboard is back to the usual routine. Temperatures are warm and humid. Unfortunately, for me, these factors are combining perfectly to create a nice, sweaty rash (trench crutch) in a region I would rather prefer it wasn't! Everyone is in high spirits and pleased to be pushing in the front pack of the fleet.
Hopefully wind conditions will improve so as to ensure that we won’t be celebrating Christmas day aboard the good ship Ericsson 4.
That’s it for now,
Ryan Godfrey
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