Sailing around the World
A Lady
Stephen Hyde
Sun 13 Mar 2011 10:51
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SATURDAY 12th MARCH
2011
We had plenty of lightning during the night, We do
not like this when it is close, we have seen too many boat
electronics
and electrics completly destroyed by lightning
strikes, including our friend Siun on " Liberty" when she and her
family
were struck by a bolt of lightning near Panama
early last year.
Shortly after midnight, we had a dancing class,
yeah, dancing around in circles, the wind died down, and then began
to go around in circles, and we did the same
too for about an hour, but ebventually we copped on and started the engine
and motored.
about 2 hours later, the wind filled in
from behind, 17 /18 knots, so we shut down the engine and off we went on
our
merry way under sail again.
The wind during the day just came and went,
sometimes we had great sailing and other times we were just bobbing
around
going no where fast.
Suzanna was in much better shape today, eating
lunch, the " Avacado & Prawn " salad, plus all the bits,
We still had a lot of catching up on sleep
starvation, so lots of naps.
Generally , the day was very pleasent, relativly
flat seas, and this made for a comfortable day at sea, about 100 miles off shore
now.
Skipper spent most of the afternoon preparing the
light dinner, this meal we had recently and it comes from one of Aileens many,
many
cookery books on board.except last time
skipper did not flatten the chicken properly, so we were going to get it right
this time.
We
took the brest of chicken and placed it between two sheets of butter paper,
( wax paper ) and walloped it with the
timber mallot untill it was about 2.5 times
its original size and fairly thin,
This was then seasoned, and lined with a layer of cheese and then a layer
of Parmo ham,
Then a line of stuffing about 1/2" in diamiter ( made of creamed potatoes and
soft cheese mixed ) plus a single piece of asperigus
was
placed across one end and then all rolled up like a swiss roll, rolled in
seasoned flour and fried on the pan for about 25 minutes.
This was served with a lovely sauce, with baby spinage and asperigus, and some
tomatoes for colour.
It was yum, yum, and much much better than last
time,
Whats funny was the book says 15 mins preperation
time, we think now after 2 efforts at this, they really mean about
1.5 hours,
but, but, we have loads of time,
Soon dusk appeared, and by 6pm we had
travelled 386 miles since we left Recife, going nowhere fast.
As the evening went by, we had lots of rain,
but again that is usual for this area around the equator, and especially off the
mouth of the Amazon,
That it for today,
Signed :- Stephen Hyde ( Skipper
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