Tuesday, April 21st, 2009
Today Nico and I had galley duty and being Donald’s official day off we had to cook.
The key to that is planning, as Bruce and I found out on the crossing :-)
Once we had a plan for what to do for lunch and dinner it was just a matter of coordinating the timing
around the vagaries of our old diesel stove. For the record lunch was onion and tomato soup with bread
and jam and dinner was “bubble and squeak”, corn beef and cabbage, bacon and corn meal dumplings
quite yummy actually.
One advantage of being on galley is that you can stop to watch what’s happening around the ship. Which
today meant watching the fleet of beautiful classic yachts parade out of the harbour to get ready for
today’s racing. Like watching a parade of very expensive peacocks that.
Just as we were getting dinner ready the big French schooner came in with her mainsail torn in half. What
a mess! That one sail probably has almost as much area as all of ours together, or so it seems. Th noise it
made when it ripped must have been tremendous and frightening.
Tomorrow we plan to join the fleet for the racing, heh :-), at least until they go upwind then we will head
off to Ile de Saints which is an overnight sail apparently.
Thanks for reading.
KJ
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