18 36.63N 045 34.88W At Sea - Day 16

Pipedream
Thu 9 Feb 2012 11:04
Hi all still cruising along in about 6.4 kts of E wind. Pretty rough about
12 foot seas. Boat is a rocking. After not taking a shower for 15 days, we
saw a squall (rain storm) approaching on radar. We all stripped down to our
jockos and brought up the soap and shampoo for the festive event. When it
finally arrived we soaped up and then it stopped. Sat around in the cold
wind waiting for enough water to rinse the soap off.

We tried to eat up the last of the fresh food last night so we could stop
running the frig. We are now down to canned stuff and all the fish we can
catch. Reminds me of a tee shirt someone bought me... vegetarian... (bad
fisherman).

The boat took a nasty bunch and John grabbed the compass on the binical and
it looked just like the scene in Captain Ron where the 'trusty compass'
falls off. We got it back on. Got the auto pilot doing it's thing again.
100% redundancy does the trick. Well it is my morning watch and I need to
relive John. More later.