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Domini - Living at Sea



Hello again Boatbloggers,

We are often asked, what is it like being at sea. Not the navigating, and setting the sails and all that stuff. What is the day to day living like?

In a nutshell, it's like living in a very expensive caravan during an earthquake. It rolls about. It rolls about a lot.

Which makes some tasks more difficult. Shaving for example, is particularly hazardous. So much so that Ju has started to grow a beard. For some time now, his hair has been sun-bleached; I guess it's the outdoor life that he leads, but we were surprised to discover that his beard actually grows sun-bleached. By the time we get to St Lucia. he's going to look like Uncle Albert.

Eating can also be problematic. With all the rolling, it's like that Charlie Chaplin film, with the bowl moving from one side of the table to the other. It was suggested before we left that we eat out of dog bowls because they don't tip up. Dog bowls indeed! It's not that rough rough. (Ha ha. Geddit?!)  Now we may be at sea, but we still have standards to maintain. Though every time we have soup we come more round to the idea.

(A note from Ju: The food is great. I don't know how Lyn does it given that it all has to be cooked at a 45 degree angle, but we have had casserole de poulet, beef au vin rouge, and cassolet de canard. When I cook we get chicken and mushroom noodles en pot.)

And then you have to remember that you are completely self sufficient. So you need to conserve your battery power, your water and your fuel. This means you can't have a shower every day, and when you do it's a naval shower (wet yourself, turn off the shower, lather up, rinse and repeat.) You boil just the right amount of water, and use a pressure cooker to conserve the gas. There's no motoring when you're becalmed, because you just don't have enough diesel and so on.

It's all very SAS.

Keep on trackin'

Ju & Lyn

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