Day Twelve

Zepher
Chris & Lyn Darch
Sat 8 Dec 2007 14:20
15:40.20N
45:18.61W
 
Hi all , Ships skip No2 reporting in,
 
"A view from the Veg locker"
 
We are surfing along at 10knts with a following sea of six to ten ft , what a blast ran through a whoop of ARC boats in the night , Struck up the colours , we had the wind gauge,rolled  out the guns and gave them a broadside, sank all of them in two watches five in number , Nelson would have been proud of me , well that was my fantasising during my watch as we went through the pack like a Jedi light sabre , when I discussed this with the crew in the morning they confined me to the veg locker again were I met a very interesting half of red cabbage , he wasn't happy either as he was on the menu for lunch.
Good news on the washing front , the combined efforts of "Washboards" and "Topsails" the engineering dept  got the watermaker running , we bypass the electronic bit ( water purity sensor) and now have flowing water into our tanks , the crew who have been mumbling about rationing and having to use one baby whipe between all four of them , bit off for the girls but as I reminded them we were saving the planet ! , that's another reason why I'm in the veg locker.
We are drying out most of our gear after two days of squalls up the rear , wet wet wet was the theme of most of our night watches with wind shifts of 30 deg which plays havoc with the down wind rig , alert helmsman was the order of the day .
 The official Mother apron was crafted by Lyn a few days ago , I trialed it and was caught posinging in the galley Roger "Washboards" has photo evidence and has hidden the camera so looks like bribery and corruption will be used to extract them before they get posted on the blog !
 Mother of the day "Comms officer ,Celestial events manager,and  RYA (OM) bar and scar , has had a torrid time as mother today ,spilling the tea into the bilge's to join Washboards coffee , but he rallied to the call and produced nuvo quesine for lunch,all Mothers over the last few days have done well to counteract the pitching and rolling , I think by the end of this a Yoga class would be a piece of cake as we can out gyrate the Elvis any day.
As luck would have it my satphone calls and night to various long term friends with much bribery has averted any em about my sanity which is a great relief .
 
That's all from the Veg locker for now, hope to be out by this evening .
 
2nd Skip and Topsails man (Chris)
 
Answer: on his HEAD