Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!!  We certainly have a lot to be thankful for – our beautiful boat arrived to us virtually unharmed, we are sailing across the Atlantic Ocean and we are healthy – tonight we should feast on a small Turkey, stuffing and more – should be great.  We’ve had beautiful weather – clear skies, small white clouds and gorgeous water.  We even started out with great wind, but it soon turned around on us and its strength evaded our sails. During the day, it was cold (even though it is beautiful) and I am wore long johns, long pants, jacket and hat (foul weather gear at night).  All I can say is thank goodness I bought new long john’s (they are not silk, but a new variety of material), new gloves, socks and ear warmers J

We lost sight of land about 11 hours after we left Gran Canarias and realize that heading South might delay our arrival, but it is the best route for now.  One thing we didn’t do, that I heard every crew should do prior to undertaking a long voyage is set “assignments” or “responsibilities”.  This way, no crew member is mistaken as to what is expected of them.  I think that part of the reason we have not done this is because Marvin and Ron have already established some sort of a routine during the first weeks of their passage and the other reason is because it is 3 men and me and I was overruled.  The good news is that there are some assumed roles.  Matt and Ron are the chefs, Marvin helps fix the head and check the engines, I am in charge of the inventory on the boat and cleaning and we all do the sailing thing – I hope this works out.

I tried to send a note on the computer, but it did not work out so well for me – it brings on the sea yuckies!

Since my shift ends at 7p, about a half hour after dinner it makes it really easy to go straight to bed after jotting down my thoughts in my journal.