E.T. has surfaced to charge her Batteries. E.T. has been under water most of today while we try to make up for lost time. Our MitiMite is sick and our Captain needs Fully-Charged Batteries before we submerge again - which is how the boat runs with the Shy-Kite up in 25kts.

Lost time...well we have been plagued with issues last 2days... Lost 2hrs to a Fishing Net & Lost 1hr to Sail-Repairs after we were caught in the Blast-Zone of a Squall with our Kite up. Then lost 5miles to Squall Routing to avoid the same happening again. As a result we lost 1st place to Sapphire - that's Ocean Racing. Working hard on catching up after cutting the corner to improve our reaching angle. But it's tough to call a 700nm Layline!!! There will be many versions of events when we were caught in the Blast-Zone! Imagine the Navigator is wearing Undies&Boat-Sandals after making a trip to the Commode. I ended up laying down on the afterdeck clipped-on twice and holding on for all I was worth. 35kts with our Kite up and the ride seemed to last FOR EVER. So long I got sunburnt.

Now I am all out of dry Undies...Simon :)