39.23.45 N
012.34.30 W
S\Y Fruits De Mer
25.07.08
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new watch rota to be in effect after cascais. what i have gleaned from the grapevine is that we'll be there for the wknd. woo. this does potentially add a week. still, sailing is sailing, and water is water wherever it is.
my little plan of putting in and shaking out 20 or 30 reefs is coming to fruition. regrettably, the reason for the change in watch rota is nearly the same as the reason i have so much opportunity to perform the machanics of sailing. our deckhand is a little less experienced with the actual sailing stuff than our skipper wishes. on a boat with more crew this would be, as they say, not a problem, when a crew of 3 is doing an atlantic crossing, everyone is 'on' nearly all the time. things are getting smoother, but we're still working at getting the bugs out of the process. mostly i am very happy to be radically accelerating the learning curve. but this isn't terribly relaxing or anything.
right. so the new development is that dude is no longer on watch at night.
CAUTION: NOT TO GO UP ON THE SUNBATH IN NAVIGATION
