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Starla - Log Day 5 - Cold Porride but for a Good Reason



Hello Everyone,

Distance logged today - 64 nautical miles. Distance to date this trip - 519 nautical miles.

The poorest distance covered, to date. The wind was very light, and we were totally becalmed between 2100 last night and 0300, this morning. A little breeze came, and we then managed a poor boat speed of 2 to 3 knots.

Still battling on.

I came on watch a 0200 and was leaning over looking at the instruments, when something brushed passed my face, and landed on the cockpit floor. A bit of a surprise. It turned out to be a small sea bird, that was very tired and distressed. The bird was brown and had a fan shaped tail, that had a white, V, from the middle of the back to the top of the fan tail. It also had webbed feet. I tried to give it some water, but it was not interested. It went hiding under the cockpit seats to rest. We thought it had flown away by first light as we could not see it in the cockpit. Mid-morning, Colin was sitting in the cockpit seat and looked down at the folding swim platform at the stern of the boat. And, there the bird was, looking back. By now this bird had hitched a ride for long enough and had got itself stuck. We carefully unlocked and leaned the swim platform back, encouraged the bird with the brush handle to the side, and it jumped (well a little push) in to the water. Wet it's wings and then flew off. We are happy to have been of assistance to the little fellow.

As we have this new cooking utensil onboard, which is a stove top pot, shaped like a donut, with a lid to trap the hot air, and act like a stove top oven. Colin, set about using it last night. Great result, first out was a yogurt and lemon cake, second out of the pot was a meat loaf. Magic! I have to confess to messing up Colin's cake, while giving him a hand to extract it form the hot pot, and turn it on to a plate. I forgot to run a knife around the cake, so it came out in four pieces. Still very tasty though. Don't worry crew harmony still exists, as Colin saw the funny side ( he couldn't smile to well, because his mouth was full of cake)

Peter, was galley rat today and passed up our usual breakfast helping of porridge in to the cockpit, for Brian, Colin and myself to eat. We had three fishing lines out. Brian got a bite first, Colin and I, within two minutes. So there we were, all pulling in fish, with the breakfast left to get cold in the excitment. Each of us had caught a small Dorado. We have broken our duck, hopefully many more to come.

Regards,

Starla Crew
(written by Steven Crake)

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