Nice race conditions

The conditions continue to suit us. We have been doing a combination of light winds sailing and rowing. We are watching the islands slowly transit us. At the moment we are passing the north end of gigha and the paps of jura are on our port side (they bring back memories of a long hard tick infested run in the scottish islands peaks race. We had almost no wind in that race either).
Torbellino as visible in the distance. They come in and out of relief as the visibility changes.
We think we are doing quite well at the rowing. I like rowing with piers. We seem to have a rowing rapport. Martin also seems to row stylishly. We all row from time to time. We have an unofficial target speed below which we row. At the moment we are sailing again with a wind direction 180 degrees away from where it was 15 minutes ago. We rowed into this patch of wind. We know when we have hit the wind as the boat starts to heel over. The oarsman on the leeward side then needs to feather their oars: some of us learned to do this years ago, others are learning on the job.
We have little idea when we will arrive in corpach so just keep going. At the moment the conversation centres around how to traverse the sound of luing. Gary has just got up and seems suspicious that he is destined for another night shift. This seems to be his speciality.