26 50 45 N
53 28 30 W
0720 UTC
05.09.08
s/y flying cloud
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a day of spring cleaning. what i would be likely doing were in canada (and at camp s).
today was also yellow fin tuna day and i must apologise to the beautiful fish for the butchery of a butcher job i did on it. at least the knives were sharp. i'd been sitting in the cockpit happily sharpening. tom wandered in and said:
perhaps, but it make's chopping the fish's head off a lot easier and cleaner. okay. maybe creepy. knife honing is a somewhat boring and repetitive task, but rhythmic and relaxing all the same. we got a sharpening steel not so long ago and i think it fully helps. next i should actually read something about how to clean a fish as the element of randomness might best be left off the program in order to make the most of the resource. i aksed tom if he had seen 'sling blade.'
raised the mainsail today. that was a treat (on the one hand) and a lot of effort (i think on the same hand). wow is that a lot of rope to haul. and it's 2:1 so easier than it might be. still it was absolutely everything i had. this working the left side thing does have its limits.
using the grinder (s/ yachtie slang for 'winch') is in many ways a core training thing; i discovered that our new winch handle ~ which i hadn't yet encountered on this passage ~ has two handles for convenience and ease. not that my right hand is terribly useful just yet. i'll give it another 5 days. things are getting a little better (at least) every day. i still bang it and think bad words, but no longer say them. swelling = gone.
ooo. got tremendous thanks for making 'egg mayonnaise' a.k.a. egg salad for lunch. also did a big chicken salad,and a three fish melange. dorado,tuna and snapper. regrettably brain (sic) did not participate as he doesn't do mayo. had i known, i could have set something aside. not that there's a shortage of food here.tomorrow is leftover day. ooo!
