Sailing back to SA - day 5

Hi All.

Good News--Our young man --T-Y, is on the mend.
Thanks' Isabel for your advise on what to use from the First Aid Kit.
Last night wasn't as fast as we would have liked--averaged about 6 knots.
Thankfully that changed as the sun rose this morning.
We did our first major course change this morning since leaving Rio--did a Gibe and now running on Starboard Tack.
The wind during the day has been around 15 knots, and we have averaged around 9 to 10 knots---lovely sailing.

Some statistics:--
Dist traveled from Rio as at end of Day 4 = 722 nm
Trip Distance traveled on Day 4 = 180 nm
Dist. to Tristan da Cunha = 1091 nm.
We e mailed the Tourism office at Tristan da Cunha and requested permission to visit the island with our Multi-national crew ( Scottish , German, Swedish, Japanese and South African.)
The Harbour is too small to accommodate our Yacht, so will have to Anchor.
Hopefully we can get someone from the island to stay on board while the yacht is at Anchor--this will allow us all to visit the island as a group.
Last night was too hot on board--so most of us didn't get a good night's sleep.
Today again was a scorcher of a Day--cabin far too hot to consider a sleep during the day.

Mike LePlastrier( one of the crew members who sailed to Rio ) suggested we give some of our bottles of Captain Morgan that we have on board to the Islanders on Tristan.
Not a bad idea--we will see how they treat us first!!
Just got to make sure the Islander that looks after the boat while at Anchor doesn't treat himself to the Captain Morgan while we are ashore!

That's it for now.

Rex on behalf of the Crew on Rocket