 look the will to live meter is on 99% will to live that's a good sign yes here we're in stealth mode at night so we're just using 1.25 amps so every hour we use 1.25 ampere hours and that goes down by that number and you can see my battery is when it's fully fully charged it's 218 ampere hours you don't get to use all of those you get to use about half maximum back to the normal page so you shouldn't where you can't use all of those on a lead acid it's an AGM battery but a hundred and eight still a lot of ampere hours and you can see this monitor believes that I've got eight days and ten hours of good power from this battery at this discharge rate now when the solar panels are fired up they can produce like today and they were putting four and a half amps into the battery throughout the day throughout most of the day here in the med and that was more than taking care of the autopilot power usage and everything else so hence when the sun went down the batteries were on a battery was on 100% so yeah you've got as long as you're not too greedy you've got power autonomy quite easily now this stealth mode of course very special in stealth mode we don't get to use the autopilot we get to use the bungee pilot you seem to have joined me in my bunk this is the view that I have when I'm taking my little rests my cat naps and see the ensign so I can keep an eye on the wind I can see my iPad with the chart application running on it so I can see roughly which way we're pointing compared to the ground ground the land the ground and see my battery monitor over sorry my will to live monitor over that 96% will to live right now pretty good it's gonna get higher as the day starts and comes up and the time currently 5 36 Zulu on the I think it's the 17th of July it might even be 18 18 yes 18 18th of July no 17 I've no idea let's go and have a look it's the 17th of July yeah and we are there where's their customer blanket love alicante win here I can't even go to alicante for our holidays all lovely we like alicante oh we do do we like alicante going up here then we'll go out here then we'll go up here then who knows what the wind is to get our final push to Valentia all day yesterday and and throughout the night and today there's been a Mayday relay going on for a person lost overboard here off the coast of Denier so every now and then they broadcast the Mayday relay the person aboard ships to keep a look out so I shall definitely keep a look out as they go around the corner there okay there we go time for breakfast I think we've got tons of cigarettes we're heading this way which is almost due north and you can see there's some land in the way so we're gonna have to tack over there for a bit before we can go back that way hopefully then there'll be no land in the way have been really really tough I mean the weather's not been bad the the sailing's been quite fun but it's just the lack of sense of movement it feels like it's taking forever just to get a few mile mental part of it is really tough now fucking struggling I'm struggling so much I'm actually listening to radio floor despite not being a lesbian gay bi or anything else not being a woman being middle-class then male and having conservative views none of which aligns itself with radio four anymore which is a bit of a shame oh well I cut this bit out as well so it's a little bit of politics right now we go by I think from here when I jibed no I tacked out to here then tacked to here the only time I've touched the tillers to tiller is during the tax the rest of the time the tiller is actually although it's mounted onto the tiller pilot the tiller pilots in standby mode it's just it's just lashed as it were it's fixed position and these whole all these hours and hours and hours of sailing it's all been done by the magic of aerodynamics and fluid dynamics and all kind of depending on depending on how be your angle of sail to the wind to the apparent wind anyway so you can like here to the true I'm sailing at I'm sailing at 50 60 degrees it says on there don't take it exact completely coast hold and that's because I've got the the genoa completely bang tight bar tight on the on the winch now if I wanted to reach a little bit more sorry if I wanted to come off a little bit more I would just loosen the genoa and then reposition the main so it's sitting nicely on it and try and keep the rudder central you don't want the rudder offset either way because that's going to cause drag try and do it all with the sails and the whole keel or to be quite honest a little bit of reflex in a delta wing is a good thing so you could say that a small amount of what would look like weather helm might actually reduce drag on the keel on the keel but I'd have to do some maths to work exactly how much effect that would have so that might be good just a little bit not too much you you just don't want drag so you want everything to be clean smooth and then just let it go and she's just she's just been like it's not rock solid of course it's not because the wind isn't rock solid but look that's that's hours and hours of driving there I think this was 6am or something crazy when we did this turn here it's a very long time ago and I've had to do nothing except for listen to van der man and shout abuse at sailors that don't know call rags yeah you the fellow in the cat flying the big red nice asymmetric spinnaker but sailing straight at me for an hour not I mean not even a degree off straight at me and then only when I called you to see if you were awake did you make an adjustment and you decided to go starboard starboard because I mean whatever more on I cut that mackerel scales and mares tails and sailors and I don't know where are you coming I imagine so I mean I'm almost there now so it's got to throw something at me