The past few days have been quite constructive with time spent on the oars. Do seam to be getting very tired in the evenings. Falling asleep as I write this. At least I know I'm working I guess!

Every night when I go to sleep I leave my VHF radio on channel 16. All ships from the smallest to the largest in the world will do the same. It's an international distress channel that you would initially use to contact another vessel on. Well last night I woke up to hear "I can't see you but I can smell you" I thought what the hell is going on here. It soon became apparent it was two boats messing about with each other. Bearing in mind channel 16 is a distress channel they should not have been doing this on that channel. All of a sudden another voice came on and said "Please can you stop your rubbish chit chat or move to another channel" I could not believe my ears when these idiots started blowing raspberry's back at him and asking if he wanted a peace of them. Fortunately it stopped soon after and I got back to sleep, but I was not impressed at 3am.

I'm not really a believer in UFO's and stuff like that, but my god you see some crazy stuff in the sky out here at times. Lights appearing then disappearing, then shooting off all over the place. Quite interesting. I wish I had bought along a book on how to identify different stars. Night sky's are pretty different out here than at home.

Out for now captain Ketch