18th July

I spoke to Ian a couple of times today when he was in range of a cell phone antenna. Santa has brought him all the presents on his list.  Except, his arse is bigger than his poo bucket so balancing in a bouncy boat on a small receptacle is challenging to say the least. The wind is very light, he is moving at only 4 or 5 kms/hr, at this rate it will take him 10 days to get home. It is really hot and sunny, and no shade so he stays inside the cabin most of the time.  He is already burnt to frazzle just from working at the marina on the boat for the last few days so he is trying to avoid the sun. But the upside is that the battery is fully charged by the solar panels.  Tomorrow the wind should pick up a little and he might even get some rain to cool him down .

One very interesting thing is that, yesterday evening, a Belgian yacht sailed past while he was beating towards the north tip of Sao Jorge,.  They were going down wind but turned and beat back to him just to ask "is this a Setka 5.8"?  He explained it is the Setka 5.0.  He was amazed that in our far flung corner of the world a passing yacht knew exactly what a Setka is.  Kudos to Janusz.