Blog nr. 9 from California Blue - Cargo ships, squalls and frustrations with the wind  4/12-07

Hello Everyone,

Spencer and Elliott have ''volunteered'' to do the blog today so I am going to let them share with you the latest news and excitement onboard California Blue.

Enter Spencer:

Well I would dub it neither excitement nor news, but everything is going well onboard our lovely vessel that is Cali Blue. I have no real recollection of where the Captain (as he now demands to be addressed) left of yesterday but I believe it was before we had dinner. The curry was chock full of flavor and spices and solved our longing crisis of empty-bellyness. After dinner it was basically time for night watch as Jayson, Elliott, and myself got ready for the first watch. This watch featured almost getting run down by a cargo ship and a suicidal flying fish who propelled itself against one of our domes and landed on the deck, but then flopped back into the ocean after a little while. Other than that our watch was the same as usual, darkness, coffee/hot chocolate, and lots of man talk.

During Vic and Dad's watch they got hit by what was apparently our nastiest squall to date. While the wind wasn't the most co-operative today at least the sun came out to play and as a result the day featured some quite intense tanning sessions. We're still flying the Genoa as the wind isn't going in the ideal Parasailor direction for our destination of St. Lucia so we don't have the same soaring speed we once did but we're still a bunch of happy campers/sailors none the less.

No more luck on the fishing side of things as they seem to be intimidated by our ever so masculine and imposing fishing rod. One of the captain's more inspiring quotes which was spoken only moments ago was ''It's a damn good thing we're not fishermen.''

The meal tonight will feature some frozen lasagna (which will hopefully not be frozen at the time of our meal) accompanied by some tasty garlic bread ala Jaysonito. Personally, I'm more than excited for it and it should be ready for consumption in some fifteen minutes from now. 

While I haven't given you any co-ordinates or fancy shmancy sail talk, I feel this blog is decent enough, although very few can be compared to the sheerly epic and legendary status of Cap'n Marks blogs. Elliott contributed minimally towards this blog and has now been fired from blog detail.

That's all for now, 

Spencer and the crew from California Blue