Daily Life
Graptolite's Sailing Log
Martyn Pickup & Heike Richter
Sun 9 Dec 2007 06:03
After nearly two weeks at sea and some relentless bouncing and rolling these
past couple of days, there seems to have been a humorous blog failure aboard
so it falls to me, the skipper, to fill the breach.
Maybe tomorrow!
Grapto crew here slow to the laptop. Well I thought I saw a whale today but
decided not to labour the story for fear of finding one on the foredeck
tomorrow morning. It would be quite difficult to get into the fridge next to
the elusive spring onions in any event.
Meal times have become so important and we all fall onto our food with
gusto. It's also a case of getting the food into your tummy before it hits
the deck. Luckily Ian and Liz came up with a stunning hearty Spanish style
stew tonight. It's not quite Lord of the Flies yet but I feel we will need
to be reintroduced gradually into polite society for fear of scaring the
locals in St Lucia.
Washing a few T shirts in the normal course of events doesn't seem that
ambitious, well it didn't to me when I embarked on the project at 0900. I
can only describe the process as hand washing inside a washing machine.
There was more water on the galley floor than in the bucket and naturally
the moment everything was out over the guard rails a squall hit. Ian's
comment that the final rinse cycle had arrived was little comfort. T shirts
are still festooned across the saloon keeping my reputation for lowering the
tone wherever I go intact.
Lori