I have just had a call from Martin - all is well, but unfortunately the weather is not cooperating with their arrival pool! They have had "dead calm" and had to motor through the night. The wind has now come around to the east so they are having to buck and are against the current. At the moment they are headed for Lisbon. This will probably put their arrival in England about 1-2 days behind what they had hoped. The fog seems to be with them almost nightly, so much so that they haven't even been seeing any stars - good thing they haven't had to rely on the sextant alone for navigation! For some reason, they have not been receiving our text messages since Thursday, so were relieved to know that all was well on the home front. Let's hope for a change back to a west wind to put them back on schedule!
Mary Shelley
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