Not too sure if we are happy with it being Sunday or not as we have no wind! But, we have two loaves of fresh bread about to go into the oven to eat with our fresh longfin Tuna that is going to be served as a Tuna salad in an hour or two - not bad for a Sunday morning.

In the early hours of this morning we had the ship "Canelo Arrow" pass us at a great turn of knots. As I type this she is motionless up ahead of us with apparent engine failure. I am sure her engineers have been working overtime to get the main engine up and running again. Not such a nice job when things go wrong. We have not spoken to her via the radio but are monitoring all the shipping passing us via the AIS (Automated Identification System) which is fitted to our vessel. It is quite a brilliant system as it gives us the name of vessels near us, their course and speed as well as a host of other data about it such as next port of call and ETA. Ah, the marvel of modern electronic gadgets.

As there are four of us on board, we are running a three hour watch system and thus each of us have a day off from doing a day watch each four days. Today is my day off and thus I am also the baker and lunch food maker.

Our diesel tanks are holding well and we have no leakage. However, there is still quite a strong smell of diesel in the starboard hull and in the one saloon locker. Adrian and Luke will be giving the area another wash down later today and hopefully, by the time we reach St Helena, we will have eradicated the smell completely. Jackie also appears to be over her queasiness and has found her sea legs.

So, from a slow moving, diesel powered sailing boat in the South Atlantic, greetings until the next post form all aboard - John