Originally, shifts were proposed such that each person would work a shift and the next day the shift would change by an hour or two – so that nobody got stuck working bad hours. But, that did not appeal to me as I need structure and consistency so we decided that everyone would work 2 three hour shifts. Matt took the worse shift 1a-4a (1p-4p) and I took 4a-7a (4p-7p), then Marvin 7a-11a (7p-11p) and Ron 11a-1 (11p-1a). This way everyone worked 3 hours and then was off for 9 hours – my idea, this will work better!
I put on the patch yesterday afternoon which is good for 3 days and decided to only take the meclazine (prescription oral medicine) in addition to the patch on bad weather days. I am not going to get sick!
The boys tossed out their fishing lines with the hopes of catching some dinner. Matt has a line out and Ron has 2 lines (a bumper or tease line and then another line).
Ron was the chef during the first part of the crossing and Matt is typically the chef on our sailing trips so they were head butting it out to determine who did what – no seriously, they are both so laid back it never mattered. I think they were just glad they did not have the sole responsibility to feed everyone.
Matt and I are trying to get the feel for the boat again, get used to the 2 new personalities that have lived on our boat for the past 6 weeks, remember not to put the TP in the toilet J and relearn where we stored everything.
Heading south to Cape Verde where we’ve heard the ARC fleet went as well – we are all trying to catch some wind for the crossing.
My first night on shift and I bounded out of bed like a jack rabbit – had enough sleep and was ready to take over for Matt. I dressed in my warmest clothes, plugged in my I-pod and got the sail update. It was bitter freaking cold. I had long johns, foul weather jumper and jacket, ski socks, ski gloves, ear covers and a hat and I was still chattering at away. But the sky was amazingly beautiful full of billions of stars. It was pretty easy sailing, but that was most likely because we didn’t have much wind or boat speed (average 7 knots).