Sunday started as Sundays should – quiet, calm and slightly lazy!
The Mexican Chicken and Pepper Fajitas were excellent for lunch and kept us going until our Sunday Roast Extravaganza – Roast Lamb with a fresh sprig of Rosemary, roast potatoes, carrots, onions and green beans; Bisto gravy and mint sauce …. and not forgetting the fine YORKSHIRE tradition of Yorkshire puddings. Now any Yorkshire family will know how important it is to get the puddings correct… the batter mixture, the temperature, how hot should the oil be, how much oil, how much batter in the tin etc. So there was great delight amongst the crew when some pretty fine Yorkshire puddings appeared from the oven! (Reports Sallyanne gloatingly J - Mum would be impressed – although there may have been an element of beginners luck combined with pure fluke). Desert was fresh fruit salad – again!
This morning being a 'Monday' it should have been cereal for breakfast however the Skipper assured us it was Wednesday – which is a Bacon and Eggs and grilled tomatoes day – so being good crew we agreed with the skipper and suffered the consequences of Bacon and Egg Butties. After breakfast it was confirmed that we were all mistaken and that it was in fact Monday! Oh-well!
Now the logs appear to be mostly concerned with food consumption rather than sailing! However I can't think of an exciting way to describe sailing in the same general direction day after day unless we have an incident! So we are still whooshing along – but slightly slower at 6-7kts due to a weather trough that we are slowly approaching. Our tactics (other than overdosing on Vitamins) has been to sail more northerly route compared with the southerly trade-wind route that many other yachts opted for. Those that also chose a similar route to us appear to have stayed north but a couple of days ago we started to head more southerly in order to minimise the effects of the trough – so we believe we are in a good position compared with others on the same initial routing. The rougher weather we experienced a few days ago has taken casualties – reportedly 6 yachts have broken booms and many have lost spinnaker sails – so all in all we have done quite well with no major injuries other than bumps, scratches, scrapes and bruises.
Clare has just given out a squeak of delight and gone rushing up on deck – something big and dark to starboard in the water appears to be heading across our path…. I better go take a peak with every one else………
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