Another day, more sun.
The days do more and more look one like the other, the daily routine gets
settled. Sunbathing, being on watch, cooking, eating, washing up, sleeping,
maybe some reading, sunbathing..... Fortunately there are “lazy days” with only
one day-watch and “hard days” with two, so we don’t get completely lost in the
row of days, that are like pearls on a string. The men get their hair done, what
means in the case of rob a freshly shaved skull and in the case of Jacko a
rather “sheepish” look.
The wind are still light, what makes helming during the night quite
difficult, not seeing Gary, but only hearing it flapping when it is too late.
Yesterday evening we took Gary down seeing a very dark cloud coming towards us,
but about 10 minutes later we hoisted it again. Maybe Jacko just wanted us keep
in training... Actually we are heading towards St. Lucia with 7 to 8 knots of
speed and the boat is gently rowing in the waves. 6 more days, Jacko just
says.
With fishing we are not so lucky, the lovely pink lure too doesn’t do it’s
duty. One catch only (another big one, Steve says), but it slipped away before
being close to the boat. We give the pink one another day, then it will have to
go back in his box and we try another one. Wish us “Petri heil” (or
whatever you say in English). But even without fresh fish we do not starve,
there is so much food on board and always somebody preparing delicious meals for
everybody. We get to know the secret favours of each others, like Steve’s love
for huge amounts of ketch up and guacamole sauce over everything and discuss
things like which condensed milk is best.
One of the best moments for me is the “aperitif” time in the late
afternoon, when Rob and Matt put on some music and all of us sitting together,
talking or reading or just dreaming. I hope there will be some more of these.
I send some sun rays to you back home, we think of you and wish you good
times and sunny days.
Ig wuensche aune e hiube hinech, haebets guet und schribet mau.
Annette and the crew of Lancelot II