Solo-Around-Nonstop - Dee Caffari/Aviva www.avivachallenge.com - zur Übersicht 03.12.2005 Shore team commentary Harry Spedding Saturday 3 December 2005 08:58 As we approach the end of Dee's second week at sea she has begun to settle down and get used to life alone at sea. If you read back through her daily logs there has definitely been a lifting of her spirits. The storm that she fought through last Sunday night has been almost cathartic, she has proved to herself that she can cope with tough situations and come out in one piece. Position 03.12. Since then she has had to cope with a couple of autopilot traumas, rebuilding a water maker high pressure pump, and various computer problems (not the computers themselves, but the peripherals). Dee talks about the pump quite lightly, whereas in truth it was quite traumatic for her. In her mind she knew that if she could not get the pump working it could cause severe problems. Trying to catch rainwater so that you have enough to drink is not something that she would want to be doing. Although it sounds like one problem after another, Dee has also managed to get her body into a rhythm. She is now sleeping properly (a massive 20 minutes at a time), drinking more (thanks to the water maker), and fuelling her body with food. She has got good trade wind conditions, and Mike is setting her up for a good crossing of the doldrums. So all in all, at the end of the second week things are moving well. Let's hope that the next week brings more of the fast pace that she has been setting down the Atlantic. For those of you that read these articles and do not understand the terminology or references, please use the questions section so that either Dee or the shore crew can try explain. There is of course the Glossary section on the website, so feel free to learn the new language of Yottie Speak. Confused by any of these terms? Read our Glossary Copyright © 1996-2016 - SEGEL.DE