Dear outside world
In many ways life on board is much like life at home. Susie and I made our finest chilli con carnes for dinner last night, I've started reading a book, we sleep a lot, we do the washing up etc. However there are a few differences:
- you can't walk the dog or go for a jog.
- we are a little isolated - as in nobody at all for twelve miles around and most of them safely tucked up in bed over 600 miles away ( 2000 miles if you go the other way).
- there's quite a lot of water around. In case you get bored with the salty stuff, it occasionally hammers down from above.
- we can't get the X-factor results
- our lunch gets interrupted sometimes by orders from the skipper to dangle off various corners of the boat in 27
knot winds and pull bits of string ( tied on of course for those of you who worry).
- getting up at 3am to dress in full oilskins to do your watch in the pitch black and driving rain.
We are allowed the occasional beer and celebration for some random milestone or event. The next one due is ..only 2000 miles of open ocean to go. We also enjoy equally random philosophical musings, over-confident attempts at fishing (as in Tony declaring " fish will be caught today" ... needless to say...), enthusiastic and probably tuneful singing.
It's life Jim but not as we know it.
Cheers Jim