Yes, Tilda is a very equal boat if we consider gender: the crew is composed by 3 men (plus Captain Fabri) and 3 women and all duties are perfectly shared. Same hours at the helm, same hours on watch, same duties for cooking, cleaning and rig checks. Of course there are some “natural preferences” in everyone: Rui and João are more fond of night shifts (during which they stare at the stars and sing in duet Portuguese love songs), Iva is very precise in her checks, either for food stocks or for rigging, Francy takes care of communication (VHF is her favorite chat-line and this blog is written by her), Ale is the best at the helm in every condition and our super jolly in the galley is Matteo, delighting us with two fresh and healthy meals per day.
We are sorry that we won’t win the ARC (at least not this year), but we are absolutely sure that, if there were a cooking competition, it would be won by our sailor-fisherman-masterchef Teo. You cannot imagine the quantity and quality of his preparations!
Don’t try to hire him for the next ARC edition, because we already signed a contract with him for 10 years.
The market is closed!
Los Tildamigos
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