Last Wednesday I got out of my chair in the office and as I was doing so I  twisted my body slightly. My body obviously wasn’t expecting this slight of movement and my back went into spasm.

Well the first part of my sailing adventure has now come to an end and I’ve been released from the ‘Clipper bubble’.

When I went to bed last night we had Liverpool and Sanya both ahead of us. Now it’s 4am and we have Liverpool behind us and Sanya off our port bow.

Well finally it looks like the end of this leg and part 1 of Chasing the Albatross is in sight. We should be in tomorrow now as the wind has finally backed to give us a push.

Today I thought to give an insight into how food is going on the boat. We were expecting to be in Airlie by now and whilst we haven’t run out of food we are down to the last few day bags and are using up spares as creatively as possible.

Oh I love Friday’s and especially Friday evening’s. After work, D and I would stroll into town and have a few drinks, pick up a takeaway then wrap up warm for the walk back.

Beautiful view of the gold coast as seen by our friends onboard Sanya Serenity Coast Our daily post from the red tadpole! Enjoy the sunshine in Airlie or the grey drizzle in Blighty!

So real champagne sailing weather today. Fingers crossed for more wind !!!  It’s just after midday and today the sea is a beautiful mid-blue.

Àll good here in my sailing bubble. Some brighter weather today which is great. So today I thought I’d share my morning routine for today with you.

The team ready to depart Hobart for the sunny shores of Airlie Beach

Today, 4th Jan, we’ve been busy finalising our boat preparations ready for our early departure from Hobart tomorrow and our last leg of this race up to Airlie Beach which is 1,624 nautical miles away. We’re due on board at 7am which will be 8pm today in UK time.

Since the end of the race last week we’ve had some work to do on the boat to ready it for the next race which starts again on Friday but we’ve also had some time off to explore this part of the world.