Jans Blog - Best bread yet! (writing on Day 12, Thursday 1st December 2011
- GMT 1744)
I will be talking about yesterday (Day 11, Wednesday 30th November 2011) because I forgot to do the blog but anyways, the fish we caught on day 10 was cut, fried and eaten by our hungry crew. I was the only one who didn't eat the 10 kilo Dorado (which Tim and I had a bet on, he bet me a sprite that it was a yellow fin Tuna and I bet him a coke that it was a Dorado. I knew my fish so I was lucky enough to win a coke) because I don't like seafood.
I was to make lunch, which was bread and soup. I made the bread with extra strong flour, butter, salt and yeast (Emma helped me with the ingredients and the procedure). I had to mix it all out and then kneed it which was extremely tough because it was the first time I was making bread so I didn't know if I was doing it right. I kept adding flour to it and I beat it down hard. It took a really long time but when Emma told me that it was ready, I took it out put it in the bread pan, wrapped in cling film with the help of Danny and put it on deck in the sun. After about 30 minutes or so I put it in the oven and took it out after 35 minutes and the bread looked amazing, it had risen so much and everyone loved it. They said it was the best bread so far. It felt great because it was the first time I was making bread.
Later on that day we needed to do a gybe and Tim needed to go up the starboard guy/sheet to change the guy, so we decided to put the GoPro up behind the helm and we go the gybe on video and it was 32 minutes long. The first few minutes of the gybe was really clear and it got Tim going up the guy. Tim put the section where he is going on his video but the rest of the video was very blurry for some reason but at least the best part was nice and clear.
It was a really fun day and I will remember it for the rest of my life.