Crazy Christmas At Sea
Crazy Christmas as at sea. First, I woke up for a day shift at 8am-11am with fair wind sailing. Then, by our mistake, the main sail broke by being twisted under pressure and had now a huge hole! Feliz navidad at this point. So we started fixing with needles and patches.
The french had in plan a Christmas menu with 4 startes like "caviar the pobres" (lentels) but also some real specialties which we had saved for that day. 3 main courses and one postre. Did I mention that the motor broke another time. We entered one of the famous calmas near the equator, So. While four sweating french prepared food for hours me and Tommy obertook boat parts (steering, putting other sails down). The captain was knee-deep in the now openly laying motor in the saloon and kitchen whch made cooking an act of circe.de soleil.....then just before sunset it started raining and the sailors fixing the sails had to stop. But the motor was okayish fixed for.now.but still hot ans needed to cool down. We went onto thw deck for a pause y voila....Delphines nos visotaron a little present amd gave us a show jumping high..amazing. then we started off with putting christmaa dinner plates up (now with fitting Christmas hats and music)
As the motor.was not on ams waves got biggee we were getting through.from.one on the other side big time....impossible to eat. Releave motor.dinally fixed and now we could.eat although some looked already green in their faces and one left befor the desseert to lay down, puke and whatoever. We others.opeend.some bottles of wine (2) and champagne and cider and had some fun until puring rain started and everyone gathered their wetsuits....and we started our shifts. Mine was.a at 2am-5am. Great star full night and moon but felt exhausted.......this was definitely a Christmas I'll never forget