Message From nicole

Its getting damn hot now as we continue down towards the equator. Night sailing is now much more fun than day sailing, as you get a nice warm breeze under a starlit sky, instead of the scorchio of the day. Had a party the other day for skipper Marcus' birthday, with hats, balloons, a moustache competition (face paints for the girls, some v dodgy real ones from the boys) and some comedy boobs...! Surprisingly, the boobs have proved to be particularly useful when trimming the spinnaker (as a small cushion)! Saw the coolest thing last night. There were some dolphins swimming alongside the boat, which you coudn't see in the dark, but then you could see these swooshes of phosphoresence as they swam around. The phosphoresence is like little fairly lights in the sea! Our email system is a little shoddy, so if anyone has tried to email me on the boat, then its possible that it hasn't made it, so just try again.

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