Life on Board

I'll write a much more detailed account of life on board once we're underway again, but I wanted to give you a little snapshot of how it goes.

I'm on watch 3 times over a 24 hour period.
9am-12noon
6pm-8pm
12am-2am

On watch I simply watch for traffic and make sure we're moving in the correct direction. Bubas has an electronics setup that allows us to specify our destination and then the computer takes into account the wind and current we're experiencing and puts us on the correct course to get us where we want to go. We of course have to make sure the sails are trimmed properly for the wind conditions, but even the winches are electronic, so I'm not ever breaking a sweat through manual labour or brain power. This is *not* how I would like it to be. I'd much prefer having to work a bit more, but beggars can't be choosers, and I am on board a boat crossing the Pacific, so there.

Though we of course wanted more interaction between the 4 of us, the language barrier is significant. So most of the time I'm only chatting with Oly, having only minimal conversations with Elze and Jean.

Off watch I've been reading A LOT (~750 pages so far). My book is FANTASTIC - Shantaram - awesome can't recommend enough. Thankfully I have several on my kindle once I plough through this one. I take little naps throughout the day, and usually watch about half a movie every night before I sleep around 10pm (to later get up again at midnight).

We share cooking and cleaning duties - right now we have no system - we each cook when we feel like it and clean up when we feel it's our turn.

For the longer passage, I really want to write more, and will have to sort out some form of exercise soon.