Sailing around the World
A Lady
Stephen Hyde
Sun 27 Feb 2011 11:21
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SATURDAY 26th
FEBRUARY 2011
Another beautifull Morning, we still have an
adverse current of 1.5 knots, and a tolorable sea.
08.00hrs, Distance travelled 143miles in 22 hours,
poor enough, but the wind is on the nose.
09.00hrs Joe from "Brown Eyed Girl" did the
radio call, there are seven fleet boats doing this trip with us, or us with
them,
Gosh, the Galley still smells of last nights
Bangers and Mash. despite all the scrubbing and cleaning,
We spent the day looking at the fishing rod, taking
naps, nibbling food and having cups of " Twining's Tea " and whats
more
it is just lovely tea. and can be purchased in most
countries.
We were over 20 miles off the coast all day, so
really never saw the coast line, but we passed plenty of oil rigs, and fishing
boats,
We motor sailed all day as the wind was
around 12 / 15 knots fine on the starboard bow, so sailing would have been real
slow
in the wrong direction.
Skipper made a chicken dish from Aileens book.
consisting of flattened out chicken breasts, lined with parma ham and
cheese,
and the centre stuffing was a mixture of whipped
potatoes and soft cream cheese, with a sprig of asperigus through the centre,
they were then rolled like a swiss cake, coated
with flour, and fried on pan, ( well on the boat today,we used a pot for
that job,
saves the splattering all over the place. )
The sauce was made with some of the juices from the
cooking chicken and, plus chicken stock, plus chilly sauce and a
little
corn flour , white wine, and walla, ! wonderfull
stuff, but slightly different to the menue, as we did not have all the
ingredients.
We also added to the plate, some white cabbage,
well cooked and sweetened with butter and apple sauce, ( this took the place
of dried tomatoes , spinnage and watercress, none
of which we had on board. )
Anyway , it all tasted great, and had enough left
over for tomorrow's lunch.
At home in Ireland, we hear that " Fine Geal" will
be the largest party in the next government , and " Fina Fail " have had
a humiliating result.
Also, Ireland were beaten by Scotland in the six
nations cup and England beat France.
Ohhhh, poor old Ireland, The whole
country is really having a bad time at present,
We had to get all this news from Paul Tetlow at "
Rally Control " well done Paul.
We settled into another long dark night, motor
sailing with 2 reefs in the mainsail as the wind has increased to 25 knots,
Thats all for now,
Signed :- Stephen Hyde (
skipper )
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