Sam Davies’ daily log - “Hello everyone,
After yet another agonisingly slow day, I really do hope that we have finally hooked into the Easterly trade winds.
The wind certainly does not do what it is forecast to do, as instead of 10-15 knots, today I had a frustrating 2-4 knots all day. As you can imagine, it has been tough for the morale as I have seen more miles evaporate away as Roxy wallows around and everyone else speeds on forwards.
I had a music session on my ipod at dusk, to try to forget my frustrations. I discovered some good songs, amongst others, from Queen’s greatest hits that worked well "The Show Must Go On", "Killer Queen". So I had a karaoke moment in my cockpit singing out at full blast. Very private, sorry no video of that! It is amazingly good for spirits. I think I will take a karaoke machine on my next Vendee Globe.
Now I have found my ten knots of wind, although difficult at first as I passed through a line of squalls that shifted the wind more than 100 degrees several times (don't look to closely at our track).
It is pitch black and I have just been on deck trimming the sails for the next squall cloud and I was surprised by a very cheeky black bird who was sitting on my coach roof, just a meter away from me. I looked at him, and he looked at me, then he gave me a huge "SQUAWK!" which gave me a bit of a shock as normally the birds that land on board are pretty shy, and certainly very polite. So I squawked back at him, which made him flap his wings a bit (I think I was flapping my arms a bit too), but he stood his ground and carried on staring at me as if to say "get on with your job and stop staring at me". So I did! But I couldn't help giving him a big blast of torch light right in the eyes just to show who really is the boss!
S x”
At 1100 UK time, Sam Davies aboard Roxy was in 5th position, 2,168 miles from race leader Michel Desjoyeaux aboard Foncia
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