Like day nine, day ten woke to clear skies, light winds, and smooth seas with subtle underlying swells. Unlike day nine however, no additional breeze showed up later in the morning for champagne sailing under our gennaker. This did however provide another great day of R & R.
Many of the crew took a long sleep in to begin the day and after postponing hunger with "Mari" brand digestive biscuits, we finally had breakfast at 1:30pm. Rob produced a second round of huevos rancheros (a Mexican farmer's breakfast with a fried tortilla under fried egg, guacamole, tomato, beans and capers), and produced a new high score of 191. Scoring is as follows: 10 points for each unbroken egg yolk, 5 points for each unburned tortilla (easy to do as the gas stove doesn't go very low), minus ten for each incident where the kitchen falls into the sink to port, minus 30 for each incident where the kitchen falls onto the nav table/floor to starboard, 40 points for catching an avocado or tomato mid-air before it rolls off the counter, 25 points for keeping threats to the helmsman to grumbling and muttering under breath, a full 50 points for avoiding cursing altogether, 10 points each dish for presentation, 2 points for each knot of the top true wind speed at the time of cooking. Rob's previous attempt netted 164 points in 23 knots of breeze - limited by a lack of unbroken yolks and inability to claim any non-cursing bonuses.
The rest of the day was occupied trying to coax boatspeed out of the feeble few puffs of wind we did receive, reading books, cleaning out parts of the boat, listening to music (lots of Mozart today), joking around, and napping. The day off also provided Adrian ample time to fish for toothy predators......with our first edible success - a beautiful 8-pound green-gold Dorado! We cooked this one up with wasabi mayonnaise and couscous. Delicious.
Until tomorrow,
The crew of Chance Encounter