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Pipedream
Fri 3 Jul 2009 13:42
We had not seen a ship since leaving the Azores but have seen two since sunrise. Radar is working well in fact we spotted the ships their first. I radioed the second, a large container ship that appeared to be on a too close for comfort passing and he altered course to miss us by about 2 miles. As we approach the coast of Portugal I think we can expect to see more and more shipping and big fishing boat operations.
Everyone slept well last night in relative calm with the drone of the engine. Doing a little cleaning up today. Matt is vacuuming out the cockpit - pit is a good word for it as we are eating all our meals there and snacking through the night as well. Scraped Squish, the squid, off the deck and gave him an official burial at sea this morning, I think an albatross got him before he sank far.
New taste treat... I made bread and eggs (hole in a piece of bread with an egg fried in the center) using George's bread dipping sauce left over from last night's Italian dinner. Garlic bread, olive oil, and eggs? Oopa! We got some super strength garlic at the farmers market in the Azores that really cleans out your sinuses! Also fried up some Azore's sausage for breakfast. Nasty stuff with big hunks of fat in it. We thought it might come out like bacon if we cooked it. Even the albatross wouldn't touch the stuff when we through it overboard... not all overseas adventures are good ones. Which reminds me... Mary please bring my wine book when you come over - the one I had in Europe with all the labels. We found some really good Portuguese wines in the grocery store concentrating on the local Azores stuff for about 2.5 euros. Found a few undrinkable also.
We will try another pot roast in the pressure cooker tonight if it does not get too rough. Not sure of the cut of meat we bought in the butcher shop. Pretty sure it is beef and it looked as much like a USA style pot roast as anything they had there.