CALISO WEDNESDAY 5TH DECEMBER
CALISO
Mark
Wed 5 Dec 2007 12:20
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what a night! After 8-12 shift thought i
might have a good kip but apparently the wind and waves were against that.
we were on a port tack which is not good for the double front cabin and although
i thought i had wedged myself to the side of the boat at the top of the hill
that is the bed, twice in the night, after bob had returned from his 12-4am
shift, i was propelled from my heights directly onto bob and pushed him into the
lee cloth. now you guys are probably thinking that's not too bad, but what
you have to realize is that i arrived with knees and elbows first in the small
of his back. normally you have aches and pains and wake up
refreshed. here you go to bed fine and wake up with every conceivable ache
- shoulders, back, neck........ still, it is therefore a pleasure to get
up. i arrived on deck for my 8am shift start and dave (who i am partnering
again as of last night) was already up. i asked him if he was getting some
overtime in and he replied that he'd only come up to complain about the noise
and was prompty sent to the bow to pole out the headsail. once that was
over mark and dave set about fixing the kettle as the handle broke off last
night. we thought we had a spare inflatable kettle or at least a
rehydrateable kettle, but we couldn't find either. unfortunately the glue
got everywhere and dave will have to complete the trip now with the kettle glued
to his left knee. no, seriously, they fixed it, of course.
dave then tipped half his tea over his tracksuit bottoms because he thought he
had his shorts on!! mark then tipped half his tea over the seat and we had
had about twenty laughs before 8.30am!! i've got bags on my bags under my
eyes and we are all tired, but we are having a ball. dave's quick wit and
sense of humour are a constant source of laughter.
we had VHF contact with our nearest neighbour -
Jigsaw - yesterday afternoon. they are a 53' oyster but we have been
pacing them for days. mark and their skipper swopped some sail info and fishing
info. we really just wanted to boast about our catch. they haven't
had anything for days so mark kindly said that when we overhaul them we will
drop off a portion of fish as we really have much too much!! speaking of
which, it was absolutely amazing. you don't get fish much fresher than
that. just look at these steaks and these were from the mid-section.
we froze the really thick ones.
well we passed the half way mark in the night so
today we will have the ceremonial moving of the ARC position number banner from
the port to the starboard side which is where it has to be for our arrival. more
champagne and chicken curry is on the menu for tonight. beautiful sunny
days but bigger swell than yesterday and that is forecast to get bigger and
bigger as the winds increase over the next few days. more
later
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