A better day
Salsa af Stavsnas
Ellinor Ristoff Staffan Ehde
Thu 13 Jun 2013 06:21
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After another full nights sleep this project feels
a little better today. A special thanks for advices coming by e-mail. The
best one I think from Pim on Nelly Rose: to take a break. Actually we will run
into a 3-4 months brake when the hurricane season comes to the Pacific in
November.
So we think we should really plan for where to
go so we can have a good time ashore. I think those that fully undertsand the
burden are others on the same journey.I think that back home most will think
that this is just a luxury problem, and it is! But even so, we have to provide
our own electricity, water, safety and comfort. And as my daughter Johanna asks,
-can't you cut down on the technique on board?
Of course you can, and as famous sailor/author
Fatty Godlander writes:- Hells starts when you carry on board a fridge, because
that's when your supply of electricity runs out, it is when you will have
concerns about spoiled food etc.
And we are spoiled with pressurised water, showers,
fans, radar, electric windlass, hydraulic furling,
computers etc.
The problem is if one of those things are standing
still for more than 14 days it will just get frozen and gone for ever.
So we have to live with the stuff we got with the
boat and when everything works it is great.
The day has been a short day of work, Ellinor
finished her sewing work, I inspected the hull underneath and found no evidence
of the hit we had out in the ocean. Then we went ashore to eat local food a
couple make on a BBQ, it was supposed to be in their home, but we where so many
that we ended up by the shore where the river comes out into the
sea.
We learned more about how you can cook bread fruit
and tried it tonight on board. We also tried fresh water shrimps they have here
on the island. Grilled tuna of course, rice cooked in coconut milk, banana cake
etc.
Then we went to see the wood artist that is
making me a paddle, yes I have ordered a traditional paddle they use
here.
We where there for hours, they had a kid and they
offered us all sorts of fruits and it was great to be in their garden and home,
the kids playing like crazy. A french family came by with their kids as
well.
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