The Crew is now passing the halfway mark, and while they are now currently in 5th, as we have seen a lot can change in a day. And the shore crew at home couldn't be more proud of them and what they are accomplishing.
We were able to get another update from John today!
"It’s funny how your brain works on you when it’s really dark and the sailing is challenging. It really requires that we remind ourselves how privileged we are to go on an adventure like this. It’s hard to feel upbeat sometimes but I think we all as crew get reminded often that this is amazing and speaking for myself apart from missing family, there really is no place I’d rather be. That being said we had a challenging night and our beloved grey and red spinnaker decided to get angry and remind us who’s boss. It’s sorted now and the sailing has been fantastic since our little lesson in humility.
Apparently my dad joked about Nanaimo bars in the bilge. Tegan and I talk about Nanaimo bars almost every day. We are pretty sad not to have them out here with us. Had we departed from Vancouver I have no doubt we would have some stashed away in the fridge. Unfortunately San Francisco has never heard of Nanaimo bars. Oddly enough we were unable to find Ju Jubes or pepperoni sticks there either. So weird!!!
We found a flying fish on deck this morning. Well, I guess technically it was a former flying fish. Alie was very focused on examining it and likened herself to the little girl in Finding Nemo.
There is a lot of plastic garbage out here. It’s a little disheartening. Lots of little bits of unrecognizable plastic, and the odd recognizable pieces such as buckets, containers and a hard hat. The largest thing was a 40 gallon barrel that Ian narrowly avoided at speed.
The Watch 1 has discovered the precooked bacon and our egg and hash brown breakfasts are now even better. We had one avocado go ripe on us yesterday, we expect the other 20 avocados to go ripe all at the same time tomorrow. In an unrelated story we feel it’s time to start breaking out the nacho chips and cheese.
Our watch system is 6,6,4,4,4. It’s a common system that seems to be working great. It’s to six hour shifts during the day and three foff at noon, on at 6pm, off at 10pm, on at 2am, off at 6am, on at noon etc etc....
The six hour off shift everyday is a time we all use for extra stuff like washing, or in Kevin and Alies case getting more food. We now refer to the six hours off as our long weekend. So the conversation goes “long weekend coming up, whatcha going to get up to?” Usually answered with “I’ll probably catch up on some sleep and maybe hit the hairdressers”. So life here is very much like life in shore, only different. Wwwaaaayyyyyyy different! Tomorrow I’ll tell you about my amazing hat reefing system. That’s all for now."
We were able to get another update from John today!
"It’s funny how your brain works on you when it’s really dark and the sailing is challenging. It really requires that we remind ourselves how privileged we are to go on an adventure like this. It’s hard to feel upbeat sometimes but I think we all as crew get reminded often that this is amazing and speaking for myself apart from missing family, there really is no place I’d rather be. That being said we had a challenging night and our beloved grey and red spinnaker decided to get angry and remind us who’s boss. It’s sorted now and the sailing has been fantastic since our little lesson in humility.
Apparently my dad joked about Nanaimo bars in the bilge. Tegan and I talk about Nanaimo bars almost every day. We are pretty sad not to have them out here with us. Had we departed from Vancouver I have no doubt we would have some stashed away in the fridge. Unfortunately San Francisco has never heard of Nanaimo bars. Oddly enough we were unable to find Ju Jubes or pepperoni sticks there either. So weird!!!
We found a flying fish on deck this morning. Well, I guess technically it was a former flying fish. Alie was very focused on examining it and likened herself to the little girl in Finding Nemo.
There is a lot of plastic garbage out here. It’s a little disheartening. Lots of little bits of unrecognizable plastic, and the odd recognizable pieces such as buckets, containers and a hard hat. The largest thing was a 40 gallon barrel that Ian narrowly avoided at speed.
The Watch 1 has discovered the precooked bacon and our egg and hash brown breakfasts are now even better. We had one avocado go ripe on us yesterday, we expect the other 20 avocados to go ripe all at the same time tomorrow. In an unrelated story we feel it’s time to start breaking out the nacho chips and cheese.
Our watch system is 6,6,4,4,4. It’s a common system that seems to be working great. It’s to six hour shifts during the day and three foff at noon, on at 6pm, off at 10pm, on at 2am, off at 6am, on at noon etc etc....
The six hour off shift everyday is a time we all use for extra stuff like washing, or in Kevin and Alies case getting more food. We now refer to the six hours off as our long weekend. So the conversation goes “long weekend coming up, whatcha going to get up to?” Usually answered with “I’ll probably catch up on some sleep and maybe hit the hairdressers”. So life here is very much like life in shore, only different. Wwwaaaayyyyyyy different! Tomorrow I’ll tell you about my amazing hat reefing system. That’s all for now."
