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Club Carp - Club Carp: Boats life



Following yesterday's Easting, we've reverted to a Southern tack and have been making good headway under roughly 20 knots of apparent wind. It appears, based on some of the other boats that have popped up on our radar (really our AIS for those familiar), that everyone was trying to find the optimal course over the past 24 hours. Those boats that attacked the South, while we were making our Easting, have now crossed back over our course. We can't see Sail Tracker to view the courses of our competitors but I'm thinking something like two skiers coming down an untracked powder slope on opposing slaloms to create a beautiful repetitive figure 8 pattern (skiers will know what I mean...think of any Warren Miller flick). 

Over to the daily meal recap (really all we do out here is sail, drink, and eat...that is when the Captain doesn't have us checking items off his NEVER-ending to-do list -- poor Susie can confirm), the "Cooke" whipped up a Mahi flambe with a cognac reduction last night coupled with brown basmati rice and baked beans (I did mention he was a Brit, right?). Now back to the Captain's to-do list and the Jaba-the-Hut style imprisonment the crew now find ourselves...we are forced to stick our heads in engine and generator compartments; replace thousands of hooks, fasteners, clips and lashings; caulk, tape and epoxy every nook, cranny and crack; and swab, clean, shine, polish and polyurethane every surface in sight. So is the rough life on Club Carp and it's still probably better than most day jobs. "I'd rather be sailing than, [fill in the blank}!" Finally, our spirits we given a warm boost by yet another rainbow amidst the daily squalls.


Dog quote of the day #8: "Dogs like to ride in the back of pick-ups."



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