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Reberth - Life on the oceans waves!!



For those landlubbers who read this I thought it might be an idea to let you know our daily routine!! The three man “crew” do a three hours on and six hours off rotation. Meaning they are “on watch” for three hours at a stretch. The six hours off gives them time to sleep, do daily maintenance, read and eat!! We try to have our meals together, especially supper. This is a twenty four hour schedule but more rigid from 6pm till 9am and means they are not on watch the same time every night. No one enjoys the “graveyard shift” between midnight and three am!! Bob has got into the routine of walking the deck in the morning, waves permitting, to get rid of the previous nights catch of flying fish. The most in one night so far is seven. Last night he was hit in the chest by one whilst on watch. Even when off watch during the day its all hands on deck if sails need changing. Today has been very rolly with a few squalls, which needs extra vigilance.


The men do not go hungry!! Yesterdays menu was scrambled eggs with bacon, tomatoes and toast. Fresh mahi mahi sandwich for lunch and supper will be pork and apple curry. My job is to make sure they don’t go hungry and keep up their fluid intake. As you can see from the picture we caught a decent size Mahi Mahi, which I filleted and Ian barbecued for supper, with pineapple salsa and ratatouille.


Today Ian has been keeping up the tradition of repairs in exotic places, having to work on the water maker. His efforts were successful and the crew were very pleased because it means we can occasionally shower!!

We  are hoping the waves will be a little kinder to us tonight as last night was not very nice and no one had any decent sleep.

On that note I will go and get supper. Hurrah, we are over a third of the way to St. Lucia!!

 



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