Graptolite - Mal de Mer
Graptolite's Sailing Log
Martyn Pickup & Heike Richter
Fri 25 Jul 2008 18:36
It's a bit rough here. The crew have been looking greener than they have
since starting out across the Pacific and Heiki has had to be drugged up
with scopolamine patches which is my most serious pharmaceutical in the
medicine chest for the 'Seekrankheit'. It seems to work very well.
We hear Gerrie on 'Wizard' to our north has lost his mast and sails over the
side yesterday which makes me even more pleased to have waited for my
rigging spares to arrive before setting off. Our rigging is getting a good
rattling even though we are mostly just motoring into wind.
As nobody is eating much, the annoying thing is that it looks like we are
going to have to dump a lot of food before we get to Australian waters. The
weevils in the ship's biscuits will not be happy.
M