“Leg 1 to the Maldives was a bit like treading new boots in, flat walking across wide plains before the foothills.  Leg 2 and it’s on towards the mountain range itself – or in our case towards the Southern Ocean,” wrote Mark Covell onboard the A100 Majan. Less than 950 miles from their second stopover, conditions and landscape are changing, Omani crew member Mohsin describes the changes as, “The waves have changed from being those ‘bumps in the road’, to large show-jumps, and now they are looking more like the side of a stable block.  And the heat haze that has followed us for days, so you can’t really see the horizon clearly, is lifting and the colours are brighter and sharper out here”.  See the video gallery below to check out the latest onboard video which sees the Majan crew making some repairs to the mainsail halyard and an exhausting re-hoist to get the sail back to the top of the 35m mast!