I’ve been to 2 watches already and now in bed till my next one starting at 1pm.
We are heading towards the iceberg zone limits as it a remedy to be the best route after leaving our injured friend with the US Coast Guard. We are expecting to be there in a day’s time.
Some info about our boat life, our boat days are made up of slots which defines our watch system. They are;
7am-1pm, 1pm-7pm, 7pm-11pm, 11pm-3am, 3am-7am. We have 2 groups/watches, while one watch is resting, the other is on deck. Our meal times are also around those watches, so the 7am ongoing watch has their breakfast at 6:30 to be ready on the deck by 7am, then the 3-7am watch goes into galley and have their breakfast. Similar with lunch 12:30-1:30 and dinner 6:30-7:30pm. Hence although the rest times are 4hrs on paper in fact we have a 2-2.5hrs of power naps. We always have an all all crew meeting at 13:00 with our skipper and AQP to share any daily suggestions and discuss course etc.
Last night my 7-11pm watch started pretty warm, I was out wearing shorts, then started to get cooler, so I had to put some layers on. Wind forecast was very consistent, so there was not much to do, we played a Q&A game, had few hot drinks and listened to Olly’s playlists, he has downloaded 6000 songs. We ended up the night dropping code 3 and making it ready for wooling, which is a very long process.
3-7am shift was a bit more chilly, but sky was amazing. The Milky Way and star constellations reminded of pieces of sand on a beach. I was lucky to see the Virgo constellation and the ISS immediately.
As the day started we saw some dolphins racing and playing with us, it was so beautiful watching them. Interestingly we sometimes see one or two birds flying around. One of them landed on our port helm cage this morning, then minutes later we saw 2 others coming to look for him/her. Later in the morning few whales sprayed for us and we saw their pretty tails. It was also amazing that they were humming as they got closer to us.. what a lovely moment in life, connecting with sea life at such an intimate level. Splendid morning indeed.
I was talking about the roles we have on the boat so here is a brief on the roles and the jobs we do;
Cookies- responsible to prep 3 meals a day at minimum (some bake cakes as snacks)
Enginners - checking engine parts and oil levels
Navigators- update log book every hour
Heads- responsible to keep heads (toilets) clean
Bilges- remove all water from bilges and lazorette (I did lazorette water pumping yesterday, water was pool like, so it took too long)
Media- makes photos and writes crew blog
Deck- checks deck parts, Epirb, all chafing etc
Those jobs are assigned to one person from each watch for a day then they move to the next job as per the wheels of the day (photo to follow once I’m on land).
That’s all about our boat life for today. We are likely to have Marshmallows later today and celebrate 4th July with our American friends.
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