In a similar vein to the blogs submitted by Jeu d'Esprit we too have had a wonderfully fulfilling personal hygiene experience. For hot shower read "baby wipe on deck", for organic turkey with new potatoes and basil cream sauce read "cup a soup", and for bacon and eggs on toast read "marmite" (ugh!) "on white" (we don't have a toaster). We wish them continued luxuries and strong racing, we're not at all bitter.

24 hours down and Muckle and Flugga watches have settled down well. Muckle Flugga is the most northerly lighthouse in the UK and we will be sailing past it sometime. Derivatives of the watch names, Muggle and Flucka, etc, are already in use. We find ourselves approaching the skipper's home territory of Plymouth, with lovely weather. Crew well, laughing and smiling with bikinis on (for those brave enough gender not an issue).

We still see some other boats around us, though are losing sight of the nearest as we pull away from them. Hoping for the wind to turn to the North as our track has taken us closer to the shore than we planned, as a Northerly would be to our advantage.

Crew watching on with "confidence"/naiveity as skipper Pedro and mate Peter mend sails on the start line and mull over instructions as to how to fit together a water maker after it stopped working. Plenty of loo roll on board, unlike our sister yacht Puma who left it on the quayside. One of Flugga watch works for Andrex and is happy to give production instructions over the VHF.

Computer is often in La La land along with the female contigent of the crew - both are likely to end up overboard unless they change their ways!

Peter Summers, Skipper Jaguar Logic