Patience patience
Salsa af Stavsnas
Ellinor Ristoff Staffan Ehde
Wed 26 Sep 2012 07:26
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We are really stuck in Figuera da Foz! Today there
is hardly no wind and 3,6 m swell. We shall seee if we leave or not. Tomorrow
the wind wil pick up and the swell (wich comes from a low at the level of
England) go down a bit.
There is always the bad situation of being caught
with no wind and lare swell. Then the boat is rocking with no stability in the
sails and the engine has to painfully works its way through the
water.
Yesteraday and this night it was raining almost all
the time. Today we are waking up with sunshine again.
The children have been busy building Lego and that
is of course great, except when you step on a small piece. Nowadays Lego is
about 1000.000 small details that where not there before.
Ellinor and I are fixing stuff on board and that is
the good news, the list gets smaller now. We even got our 80 meters of chain out
to untangle the last 20 meters (who spins the chain in the chainlocker?) and
marked every ten meter with red spray. The small red plastic markings gave up
one by one as we have used the anchor quite a bit.
A day in harbour is about having breakfast then
wash up, school with Erika and the other goes to the market with Andreas to buy
fresh food. Make list for provisions and get that from a big supermarket. Take
an hour to run before it gets to hot.
Prepare lunch, wash up. Siesta. Go somewhere with
the children or fix something (when its hot its better to be in the bildge or
engine room and fix). Prepare dinner, eat and wash up. Check weather, discuss
with some neightbourghs. Fix something outside as it gets cooler. Some evening
tea for the children. Make them ready for the night. Read something for them.
Sing a song and get them to bed.
If we think we can leave next day there is alot of
preparation to make Salsa "sea fit", if not, we go to bed, read or talk. That
sound like a not so hard life, does it?
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