49:17.1N 07:09.1W

Day’s run - 144 miles

Yesterday’s cool breeze from the north is today’s warm south westerly, and we are going well with mainsail and cruising chute. It’s great sailing, and sometimes the boat speed surges to 9 knots as we come down a wave, but later on we will reduce to a more sensible rig.

At noon we had 160 miles left to go to Dartmouth, and expect our first sight of land to be the Lizard Point lighthouse just after sunset – when the light is turned on! The Scilly Isles will be too low and too far away to see, and we will have passed them before the Bishop Rock lighthouse is visible. Allan will again be awarding the Queen’s Shilling for the first sight of land.

Now we are on the continental shelf the long ocean swell has stopped, and the colour of the sea has changed from bluey green to greeny blue. We also see more ships and birds, but, alas, the same number of fish.