Will i? Won’t it?

0630/22nd position 2740 00918 trip 130 and 1470 to Cape Town. Required VMGVelocity made good – loosely, speed in the right direction. still 4.8 for AM Dec 5th.

G'day to the Crosshaven RNLIRoyal National Lifeboat Institution (UK & Ireland). Run mostly by volunteers, heroes all. mob and RNLIRoyal National Lifeboat Institution (UK & Ireland). Run mostly by volunteers, heroes all. crews everywhere. I decided that today's breakfast Murph which I'm quietly savouring as I prod the keyboard, would be in your honour, especially as in the conditions we're told you are getting up there, you have probably been very busy.

Gerry Fitz – give the FenwickA friend and clearly a colourful character a call – if he's not totally stupefied, dozy old fart that he is, he's got a really good story to tell you and you can use it immediately to edify your punters. Buy him a beer – he earned it and someone orta give him a gong.

If this is a short one, the HFHigh Frequency – usually refers to HF radio which is long range digital radio that Berrimilla used to send all but a few of the logs on both circumnavigations. The radio was connected via a Pactor 3 digital modem to Alex’s laptop and used the Sailmail software application called Airmail to send emails and pull in emails, weather and GRIB files. Airmail also supports Iridium satellite telephone messaging and Alex used this as backup when the HF radio died approaching England. radio is back – I never know from email to email whether it will turn itself on when I press the switch. It came back last night for long enough to send the grey rainbow thingy so let's see now..