Day 58 onboard Roxy in the Vendée Globe – Sam Davies’ daily log - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun!

January 06, 2009 12:39 by Roxy Sailing | 0 comments

Today has been a good day! Roxy is through the last gate and her bow is pointing directly at Cape Horn!!! Good thing number one!

Yesterday I had lighter winds which enabled me to do a thorough check all over Roxy, inside, underwater and on deck, before our last run into the Horn. All seems well and Roxy and I are in good shape!

Today started well, as the wind began to build and our speed crept once again above 15 knots and the daggerboard began to sing again! I’ve been working on the sail trim and other settings to get max speed. Good thing number two!

The third good thing today is that I’m really hungry and I just haven’t stopped eating, which is good because I haven’t been hungry for ages and now I know I am getting the energy I need.

The fourth good thing (linked to the third) is that I managed to fiddle around with my 5 Euro lightweight toaster and get it to make toast with my magic Sodebo longlife bread! I LOVE toast!!

The fifth good thing (also linked to 3 and 4) is that whilst rummaging in the “week 9” section of my food bag I found a present – a CD called “The Girls” – full of cheesy girly songs!!! So for the first time in the whole race (I normally listen to my i-pod) I put the music on full blast on the loudspeakers (inside and out)! It is a great feeling to blast out classics such as “Girls Just Wanna have Fun”, “Smile”, and "I’m So Excited”, as Roxy hoons across the Southern Ocean at 17 knots. However, this has meant that we have been getting very strange looks from the Albatrosses, as it is pretty unusual to see a crazy blonde chick leaping around the deck, karaoke-style, in the Southern Ocean!

Thank goodness it’s only the albatrosses that can see and hear us. I’ll leave the rest to your imagination!

S x


At 1100 UK time, Sam Davies aboard Roxy was in 5th position, 1,938 miles from race leader Michel Desjoyeaux aboard Foncia