Wednesday 10 December 2008

Day 21 - Puerto Mogan to Antigua

Well, what a day! Firstly I would like to mention that Day 20 resulted in a record 140 mile run - go Newtsville!! Similarly today is looking like a simalar number and we should be just over 500 miles to run by noon today.
Day 21 saw the xmas decorations go up on Newtsville and xmas CD come out to play! We have tinsel all round the saloon and even some on the sprayhood on deck (although this rustles a lot in the wind and makes it sound a lot windier than it really is!). We also passed the 3/4 mark on our trip across and decided it was an opportune time to donate our 'half way hats' to Neptune as we crossed this threshold.
Confusingly we decided to change all the clocks too! We have been working in UTC (GMT) which was the time zone in the Canaries and also the time zone all our radio calls are scheduled by. However the radio calls are starting to creep back as the boats head west to make sure we are all on the radio during the day rather than at night for ease. As such we had to either move the clocks or change the watch times - surprisingly we did a bit of both! So we are now on UTC - 3 hrs (we will cross another time zone in a couple of days just before we arrive in Antigua) - but we have to translate all the radio times from UTC to 'Newtsville time' as well as the 'end of day position' time from noon to 'Newtsville time' - sound confusing ... you're not wrong!

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