Day 11- Due South

The rain continued to envelope us and full foul weather gear became essential. Even wearing our foulies left us feeling wet inside them. Those on watch braved the chill, while the rest of the crew were forced to sit out the rain down below.

The challenge of being such a large crew in close confines tested us but, again, consideration and humor pervaded.

It was impossible to heat up and food in the galley as it made the humidity in the closed cabin too intense. So it was biscuits and peanuts for supper.

Joey was on watch at about 1800 keeping an eye on the autohelm, when there was a loud noise and the boat gave an almighty shudder. The autohelm appeared to do a complete 360 deg. Turn. On inspection, we found that the autohelm fitting had sheared off its bolted fitting to the fiberglass .It was impossible to attempt to fix it in the fading light and rain, so we manually helmed on in favourable seas on a close haul towards Tristan da Cuhna.