Many weeks ago Larry went on a first aid course, a specialist first aid at
sea course provided by our good friends and excellent training centre,
Hamble School of Yachting. He learned and discovered many new things on this
course and one particular device caught his imagination and interest, a skin
stapler. I mention this only because I added this to our menagerie of
medical devices at Larry's insistence and he has since been looking for a
reason, any reason, no matter how frivolous, to use it. This almost
transpired today if I hadn't been quick enough to clean up the blood and
hide my injury. I was innocently cleaning behind the oven and the back of my
hand caught something sharp down there giving me a bit of a cut which
wouldn't stop bleeding. It just needed a plaster which I administered before
Larry noticed anything but once he caught sight of my plaster he was visibly
animated and excited with the thoughts of stapling my hand back together. It
took him less than a second to remember the device was in the medical kit. I
now fear that I will wake with my head stapled to the cabin table.
In addition to the oven I also cleaned the heads, I've been very useful
today. I say clean the heads but its more akin to mucking out the rhino
enclosure at London Zoo. I don't need to be any more descriptive than 2 big
blokes, small boat and one heads. I'm joking actually as my heads is a very
very clean environment. I've installed a number of devices to make it clean
and smelling sweetly but still needs a good clean now and again which was
today.
Progress was good with 121 miles run and we're pretty confident to cover
more tomorrow with the trade winds really coming in now. Its strange to
think that French Guiana in South America is now the closest landfall.
Amazing where you can end up when you take the wrong turn at The Needles.