Another side to the not so
always glamours side of having a fancy yacht in the Caribbean......
What a night! As I am a complete bore these days
on a health regime excluding alcohol bar from Angastura Bitters in my tonic and
O’Doul’s (day 26), I tend to go to bed at around 8:30 pm to rise and shine at
06:00. Well not this morning Jose. Well, I rose, but certainly didn’t
shine.
My dear Captain was on a roll last night
(wine, not dark and stormys), and despite my attempts to secure a good nights
sleep well equipped with ear plugs and eye blind, his snores were just too
much. Sleepwalked out of the cabin, tripped over his computer cables, discovered
all windows were on full blast open, by now I am awake. Slightly agitated I find
my way to the front stbd twin cabin. Hit my head whilst lowering myself into the
low bunk bed, (bloody hard matress), pull down the not so flattering eye blind
and squeeze in trying to make myself comfortable.... then the anchor chain,
squuuuuuuuuuuueeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeck, tug, tug, dunk, gadunk, dunk
squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeck. Get up without knocking my head again, closed the door to
the front cabin, stumbled back to the Captain’s stateroom and the heads
accopagnied to Ray’s snores (lovely nice and cool in there, and no sounds from
the anchor.... grrrrrrrrrrrrrmph!!!!), by now I don’t even bother to be quiet.
Get out sleeping remedies, drug myself and head back to staff quarters,
realising the Skipper did cork the wine bottle with the remaining noble drops
and put it back into the fridge before bed, ... it’s all down to
priorites!
Was half a sleep half awake for a few hours before
I heard some squeeking floorboards, it clearly couldn’t be Ray as he was out, it
must be a local thief..... an hour or so later I risk getting out of my bunk and
discovers the computer has gone...
Well nothing exciting, the drunken captain had got
up in the early hours for a wee and to check on missing crew member and moved
computer back to his cabin. I learnt that when he suddenly materialized whilst I
was searching for my computer to see if it had been stolen too.... so at
05:00am, no point in returning to bed. Made myself a nice pot of tea, stepped up
to the cockpit and made my self comfortable. There is something quite lovely
about that. Sitting in the dark with a blanket, slowly seeing the world wakening
up. 4 cups later I don’t feel so drugged and starting to wake up. Ray made a
guest apparance only to return to the comfort of his bed. I am ready for the
day!
Ray's lovely daughter Beccy and equally lovely
friend Jeannie are arriving today for a 10 day stay. I sincerely hope they will
be completely knocked out by jet lag so the anchor won’t bother them. The
weather seems to be improving, the clouds are heading west and hopefully taking
the rain with them. We want sun and flat calm seas! We are on a very easy sailing regime, no racing,
no long distance sailing, just chilling moving slowly around in true camping
spirit. Quite lovely actually, well especially after a good nights
sleep....
