09 27S 122 43W
Libertyatsea10
Wed 7 Jul 2010 22:06
we have not adjusted time and will have to adjust two hours at Marquesas. I think we are about 6 hours behind Europe.
Today is a blustery one, as was the night with seas that nudged our stern constantly off course
Skip was irritable as we worked hard with the spinnaker for a long time yesterday and made a good course
once we took the spinnaker down for the night time we were buffered all over the place and could not keep a good course and seemed to lose our progress...annoying that.
so we were pushed south and more south. The challenge is not to go too far south so we don't have to do too many extra miles...it's a saily sort of thing.
Juergen made Kaiser Schvarrrrum or something equally german sounding , which tasted delicious with honey,
a cross between eggy pudding and pancakes, totally calorific and gorgeous.
We are now in half oilies which is a sign that summer must be coming
Johan introduced #un heure Francais#, when we are supposed to speak French. The result is I say very little, Benjamin counts to
dix a lot, and johan talks away while we all scream @lentement lentement!! Gram and Jergen mutter away in German and pretend they are speaking french.
Then we watched a movie , HOW everyday! in the middle of the Pacific
Benj, Johann and I curled up in the saloon with lollipops and Lord of the Rings. Gram was on watch, Jeurgen in his bunk.
It was good fun except for the heaving and rolling , it was making me feel queasy watching that funny little bloke with the strange eyes( Frodo not Benj)
rolling around our saloon being attacked from every quarter, poor sod.
Johan has a beautiful HD screen so it all looked splendid accompanied by the whopping and banging of the sails, wind and rigging!
We put on the subtitles and that made life easier.
I had given up watching movies on Benj[s portable DVD on principle because it is a SONY and I bought Benj a SONY reader which broke in 24 hours before I had downloaded one book
I spent a fortune returning it to SONY from Grenada and then they charged me a fortune to tell me they would not repair it it would cost me more than a new one to repair. TOTAL RIP OFF>
Don't go to Japan and Don't buy SONY.....Rant over!
The whole idea was to have one reader instead of three tons of books, that didn't work. So we have brought with us three tons of books. HE gets one every second day, he reads it by supper time and reads it again the next day and lines up in the forward cabin waiting for his next one. There are books everywhere. I can hardly see the chart table, they are on shelves, in food cupboards, under the seats, and he reads about three at a time. Woe betide you if you disturb him to hoist a spinnaker......
OF course I am thrilled he enjoys books, he really is reading a wide range of stuff and absorbing so much.
Now, where was I?
we are all good. David (DR) Holtby's watchful weather eye is a great comfort blanket,
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