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Lea - Log Day 6 – Friday/Banana Pancakes



- Starting the day not thinking at all about the fact that it’s Friday the 13th, we decided to test our water maker, and had to “waste” some water to make room for test-water. So I took one for the team; a shower. And then a  4 hour nap. And then my sister woke me up to the smell of coffee and banana pancakes for lunch. You see, nature kind of turned on us and decided to turn about half of all our bananas into that brown, ripe look - all at the same time. So then we had no choice but to eat them all. So Chef Erin whipped up some banana pancakes. Eat that, nature.

In theory we may not have had the best luck fishing yet, but how did we know we weren’t even going to have to use a pole. Earlier today, during a stroll on deck, I noticed this tiny, slimy creature with wings, just kind of smooched into the deck. Was it a giant mosquito? A tiny bird with surprisingly small wings? I guess you can say that my only right guess was that our deck had unfortunately been its funeral. The poor thing was one of those flying fish, whom I now had to peel of our deck. When I say peel, I mean literally. I put on a plastic glove and had to use force to remove it from our deck, the anti-skid dots on our deck was imprinted in his wings. The Sahara Desert has really felt comfortable settling down on our boat, there’s probably enough sand to build a sand castle, so when the little creature was removed, there was a white spot from where he had been. I mean poor thing, may he rest in peace, but ew!

By today’s dinner we have narrowed it down to only 158 nm left, the sky is super pink and continues to blow my mind, the wind is doing its best to fill our sails and I am ready to enjoy what could be our last night before Cape Verde.

Sailing for Hope,


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