13.20N, 71.32W
Around the world with the Aqualunies
Jonathan & Gabrielle Lyne
Fri 22 Jan 2010 15:54
Hear we are rocking and rolling along in winds of 25 - 30 knots. A huge
lumpy sea and shippping the occasional wave into the cockpit. At least it
is very warm. My herb garden which I thought I had stowed well under the
dodger set fly and landed at Jonathan's feet so he was up to his ankles in earth
in the middle of the night, so out came the dustpan and brush and buckets of
water, another lesson learnt. Dinner last night had to be out of bowls and
eating with a spoon. I marinaded Chicken breasts in sesame oil, sesame
seeds, brown sugar, garlic, ginger and soy
sauce balsamic vinegar & lime then cooked them on the
griddle. I also made a sauce out of a small amount of coconut juice, corriander
leaves, mint leaves, a small green chillli, lime juice, garlic, half
advocado,cumin , sugar, and baymixed it in the bowl to make a sauce. Served
chopped up breast and sauce on a bed of plain rice and broccoli sprouts.
It was good but found that when I came up on deck and moving from galley to
cockpit I felt queasy so only nibbled at the rice and broccoli. Fen and
Jonathan ate with great gusto and had my helping! Fen and John have moved
into the main saloon to sleep as the forepeak cabin is like trying to sleep in a
roller coaster.
Our ETA for Cartagena is Sunday morning. I have also banned J from
fishing as it is so rough, slowing down and turning up into wind in this would
not be good. J chatted with some of the other Blue Water Rally yachts on
the radio most of which havve arrived in Bonaire, not many of them are going to
Cartagena as there is a slight worry about pirates near the entrance. We
do know of one other yacht, not a BWR yacht, ahead of us who is also going
there, so long as we enter in daylight and a different, busier channel we should
be alright. It is, we are told, a city well worth seeing.
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