Just have seen one of the most amazing sunsets. That’s one of the things I’ll miss so much about this trip, all the vibrant colours, smiling over a wild wild ocean.
We have now started the ocean sprint but the wind has slowed down. We didn’t even need to clip on the whole day as the apparent wind speed was less than 15 knots, not the wind conditions we’d like to race this Ocean Sprint zone for sure. On a different note, we must be somewhere pretty north as it started getting super cold. This morning when I was back in my bunk at 4am, I started to shiver and trembled with cold until 7am. I’m sure I fell asleep few times in between. However as a result I couldn’t leave my bunk at 7am. I was worried of hypothermia at the time and sadly I couldn’t call anyone as I wasn’t able to make any sounds due to trembling inside the very fluffy & warm Ocean Wear sleeping bag.
As a result bunk above me had to be cleared up from bags so my bunk mate Andy could rest there, as I wasn’t able to move outside of my bunk. Later during the day my fever came out as 35.9degC. Can’t tell whether I have had hypothermia but I felt pretty cold most of the day. I then spent rest of the day either resting or having a compulsory stay on deck for fresh air. I was lucky as we’ve seen a group of dolphins that came to play with us. I’m doing much better now, out for my 7pm shift. I have added 2 more layers on top, long sleeved merino base layer (which goes on the short sleeved merino base layer), and the Musto salopette mid layer. It makes really hard to walk on deck with them though. I took the bin bag to the lazorette and it took about 10 mins to walk, get in and find a place to place the bin bag.
Now just clipped on as it is officially night.
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