Davies’ daily log - Am I going mad?
“Hello everyone!
I’ve passed the 60 day mark! That’s AMAZING - time goes so quickly! In one sense I can't believe that we have been out here for two months, but at the same time it seems so long ago that day we left the channel of Les Sables d'Olonne! So much has happened since!
Today I have been sleeping, as after my last two days of eating lots, my body has now developed a demand for lots of rest. I think it is trying to tell me something! Luckily the conditions have allowed me the time in my sleeping bag. I have had lots of 60-90 minute sleeps with a few manoeuvres in between, plus some tidying of Roxy, and obviously the important weather and strategy work. I'm trying to plan a route past Cape Horn that is safe and fast, staying away from the lee shore, the islands and the ice, and dodging a little secondary low that is going to pass over us.
This morning it was great weather yet again, with Roxy flying along effortlessly on some magnificent surfs, in the sunshine. These South Pacific waves are just amazing; Roxy and I are really going to miss this sailing now I have a taste for it! I am definitely making the most of these last two days to save up the memories to last until I come back.
Now, however, it is really grey and rainy as the next low approaches. I have to let you know, as the photos I am sending were sunny ones and I don't want everyone to think it’s like that all the time here: most of the time it is grey!
I am a bit worried as I am starting to talk to my Roxy boat. I never thought it would come to this, but today I found myself talking to her, telling her off for going too fast. Oh dear, is this the first sign of madness? Not the first, I hear you say!
It can't be too bad - I even heard that Bilou calls his boat his "baby"...
S x”
At 1100 UK time, Sam Davies aboard Roxy was in 5th position, 1,885 miles from race leader Michel Desjoyeaux aboard Foncia
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