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Amelie d'Oslo - Hurra for the 17th of may!



Salutations to all the brave fighters for freedom! We have been bloging on [email protected] but will also update the arc site from now.

 

Today we have celebrated the 199th Norwegian constitution day on Amelie. We are happy to celebrate that our country was given from Denmark to Sweden. (The Swedish had us for almost another hundred years, but at least we got a constitution)

 

This great day at sea started with Miky Mikes great banana pancakes with syrup and beacon. We were debating whether we would march around on the boat singing "Ja vi elsker" (Norway’s national song), but we ended up with the old classic chilling in the sun.

 

Richard decided that dessert should be served before dinner – so his contribution was to make bread-and-butter pudding, which was complicated by having no nutmeg and being unable to use egg yolks, and also that Richard didn’t really know what he was doing, as his time in the galley is usually spent cleaning; cooking is certainly not his forte. However, the pudding was well received. For dinner we had pork chops à la Atlantic complimented with cabbage, potatoes, mayo and red wine sauce (again) à la Atlantic. The guys eat up, finished the red wine and were all happy.

 

We have not seen any whales or sharks but Richard saw a dolphin flash by twice early this morning.  or dolphins today. We have 1490 nm to go, but no other national holidays, so we consider this the ultimate holiday of them all. If we would have had anything specific to do on the boat, I'm sure we would all have the day of today.

 

Richard dragged out his late father’s antique sextant today and we all had a go at shooting the sun, with various degrees of success. It remains to be seen whether Richard is truly capable of turning the sextant readings into anything resembling Amelie’s actual position. Frankly, the best most of us hope for is that he manages to place us in the right ocean……….

 

The whole crew sends warm kisses and hugs to everyone in Norway, and on the internet in general! We all hope you have had a great 17th of may!

 

Richard has been playing Amelie’s bugle, and tomorrow promises to play the Reveille in full as the Norwegian flag is hoisted over the stern just after dawn. Ski-Per is equally determined that his morning slumber will not be so disturbed and has now quietly hidden the bugle somewhere that Richard won’t find it……….

 

I promised you to keep you up to date on Bendik facial hair, and I can tell you its going better then ever. He wants to shave at the Azores because of tanning reasons, which is always a good reason, but I’m trying to keep him motivated to hang in there.

 

We disagree with the Pet Shop Boys, and keep singing "Go east"!

 

Smell you later!

 

Hi folks back home, family, friends, enemies (if we have some) and to all you other Norwegians, and Norwegians to become. The Atlantic ocean, we the crew on the happy  sailboat Amelie, most of the mermaids and around 2 billion fishes (that we haven’t sees so fare), we all greets you on this 199 Norwegian constitution day.

 

This has been a fantastic day, the forecast was; NO WIND. We got the best sailing condition ever with sun from a clear blue sky. Amelie is steadily on a north east course.

We have a daily competition on who is best on guessing how far we sail in 24 hours. To day champion in guessing was Bendik, his guess was 141 nm. We sailed 141nm.

Isn’t that impressive guessing from our Skårunge - Norwegian name on a new, young and inexperienced crewmember.

Bendik is doing great, but as the skipper I must say he is very occupied on this sun tanning thing. If he tan anymore we will have a hard time convincing the Portuguese authorities that he is a Norwegian.

 

The night is here and time to go to bed, so long.

 

Skip-PER

 

 


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