“These timeless surging seas \u2013 the lure of restless men \u201c<\/h2>\n![\"Pocket](\"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/clock-timezone.jpg\" "\\"Pocket-watch-and-map-showing-time\\"")
26 hours a day<\/p><\/div>\n
Yesterday I stood at the very front of our vessel, holding on to the forestay and looking forward at 2000 miles of open ocean. The sun was out and the warm breeze was pulling hard as we surged through the rolling waves. The rush and roar of the water passing under us added to my feelings of immense privilege and elation as I flew god-like over the intense blue sea.<\/p>\n
Just 8 metres behind me was a cockpit full of new friends who were playing music, chatting and making endless rounds of tea and squash. Despite the total lack of alcohol conversation never seems to dry up and we have relaxed in each other\u2019s company sufficiently for the British sense of wry humour and irony to come out.\u00a0 One member of the crew observed that putting sun-cream on a male colleagues back reminded him of \u201cgreasing a bull at the Great Yorkshire Show\u201d.<\/p>\n
Not a single person has expressed any regret about being away from the news, internet, amazon and politics. If you do want quiet then the convention is to go on the foredeck or sit in the sail locker.<\/p>\n
I cannot speak too highly of the skipper, mate and watch leaders Ricky, Kirstie, Baz and Chris are excellent.<\/p>\n
I suspect you will have gathered I am having the time of my life. My only sadness is that my family are not here with me. I miss them greatly and cannot wait to give them a hug.<\/p>\n
I am stopping now as I am on mother watch and have some heads to clean.<\/p>\n
Love, Martyn<\/p>\n
![\"start-of-the-arc-2019-rally\"](\"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG-20171119-WA0034-300x169.jpeg\" "\\"a-dim-and-distant-memory\\"")
A dim and distant memory of the start of the race<\/p><\/div>\n
CF540 ARC 2019 CH2 Daily Report 2019-11-30<\/h4>\n
Date : 30 November 2019
\nTime : 12:00 GMT (12am Boat Time)
\nPosition : 21.20 N 24.54 W
\nPosition : Off the Cape Verde Abyssal Plain
\nDestination : Rodney Bay, St Lucia
\nETA : 0200 Dec 14 (GPS)
\nDTF : 2105 Distance Run 805
\n24 Hour Run : 139 DMG in 24 Hours : 138
\nRequired Knots for 15 Dec : 5.8, Arrival at 8 Knots : 10 Dec
\nWind : AWA : 130 AWS : 10
\nSailplan : Full Main, Genoa
\nPOB : 14, all in good health and happy
\nFuel : 3 full, 1 in use
\nWater : 2 full, 1 in use, 1 filling – Watermaker working at about 18L\/Hr
\nGas : 3 full, 1 in use, 1 Empty
\nToday on Challenger 2 :
\nBreakfast : Pancakes Lunch : Salad Buffet, Dinner : Chili
\nMusic : None at the moment
\nFishing Score : 27\/11 1x Large Dorado
\nNotes and comments:<\/p>\n
Skippers Log<\/h2>\n
All good on deck. We had our first mini squall, nothing much in the way of wind, but a sprinkling of rain at midnight to make the crew scramble got wet weather gear before returning to the deck with the cloud passed and the rain gone.<\/p>\n
We are doing a two hour clock change today which is confusing the lunch schedule a bit. Recycle bins are full so there is a bit of a noisy tidy up going on in the sail locker to ensure that cans are with cans and bottles with bottles before the bags are marked up and stowed in the Laz.<\/p>\n
Forecast look great for the coming week, some yee-hah sailing coming up at last\u2026<\/p>\n
Skipper<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Musings from Challenger We\u2019ve had a bit more wind today and are still sailing with the Genoa and Mainsail.\u00a0 Having made our way broadly South, gybing downwind away from the Canaries (for the first 4 days). Our course is now c265 degrees almost directly towards St Lucia.\u00a0 As we move West we will move further […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learn-to-sail"],"views":1399,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4942"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4957,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4942\/revisions\/4957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
26 hours a day<\/p><\/div>\n
Yesterday I stood at the very front of our vessel, holding on to the forestay and looking forward at 2000 miles of open ocean. The sun was out and the warm breeze was pulling hard as we surged through the rolling waves. The rush and roar of the water passing under us added to my feelings of immense privilege and elation as I flew god-like over the intense blue sea.<\/p>\n
Just 8 metres behind me was a cockpit full of new friends who were playing music, chatting and making endless rounds of tea and squash. Despite the total lack of alcohol conversation never seems to dry up and we have relaxed in each other\u2019s company sufficiently for the British sense of wry humour and irony to come out.\u00a0 One member of the crew observed that putting sun-cream on a male colleagues back reminded him of \u201cgreasing a bull at the Great Yorkshire Show\u201d.<\/p>\n
Not a single person has expressed any regret about being away from the news, internet, amazon and politics. If you do want quiet then the convention is to go on the foredeck or sit in the sail locker.<\/p>\n
I cannot speak too highly of the skipper, mate and watch leaders Ricky, Kirstie, Baz and Chris are excellent.<\/p>\n
I suspect you will have gathered I am having the time of my life. My only sadness is that my family are not here with me. I miss them greatly and cannot wait to give them a hug.<\/p>\n
I am stopping now as I am on mother watch and have some heads to clean.<\/p>\n
Love, Martyn<\/p>\n
A dim and distant memory of the start of the race<\/p><\/div>\n
CF540 ARC 2019 CH2 Daily Report 2019-11-30<\/h4>\n
Date : 30 November 2019
\nTime : 12:00 GMT (12am Boat Time)
\nPosition : 21.20 N 24.54 W
\nPosition : Off the Cape Verde Abyssal Plain
\nDestination : Rodney Bay, St Lucia
\nETA : 0200 Dec 14 (GPS)
\nDTF : 2105 Distance Run 805
\n24 Hour Run : 139 DMG in 24 Hours : 138
\nRequired Knots for 15 Dec : 5.8, Arrival at 8 Knots : 10 Dec
\nWind : AWA : 130 AWS : 10
\nSailplan : Full Main, Genoa
\nPOB : 14, all in good health and happy
\nFuel : 3 full, 1 in use
\nWater : 2 full, 1 in use, 1 filling – Watermaker working at about 18L\/Hr
\nGas : 3 full, 1 in use, 1 Empty
\nToday on Challenger 2 :
\nBreakfast : Pancakes Lunch : Salad Buffet, Dinner : Chili
\nMusic : None at the moment
\nFishing Score : 27\/11 1x Large Dorado
\nNotes and comments:<\/p>\n
Skippers Log<\/h2>\n
All good on deck. We had our first mini squall, nothing much in the way of wind, but a sprinkling of rain at midnight to make the crew scramble got wet weather gear before returning to the deck with the cloud passed and the rain gone.<\/p>\n
We are doing a two hour clock change today which is confusing the lunch schedule a bit. Recycle bins are full so there is a bit of a noisy tidy up going on in the sail locker to ensure that cans are with cans and bottles with bottles before the bags are marked up and stowed in the Laz.<\/p>\n
Forecast look great for the coming week, some yee-hah sailing coming up at last\u2026<\/p>\n
Skipper<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Musings from Challenger We\u2019ve had a bit more wind today and are still sailing with the Genoa and Mainsail.\u00a0 Having made our way broadly South, gybing downwind away from the Canaries (for the first 4 days). Our course is now c265 degrees almost directly towards St Lucia.\u00a0 As we move West we will move further […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learn-to-sail"],"views":1399,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4942"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4957,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4942\/revisions\/4957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}