We are officially ½ way across the Atlantic ocean today, so I made Flap jacks to celebrate.  As I made Mickey Mouse pancakes for the boys they read the history of a flap jack which was an interesting story, really!  Today was beautiful, warm and fairly calm. It was a great day to be on the water, but a bad day for sailing with a goal toward your destination.  However, this made it a perfect day to get a big chunk of the inventory done. I started on the starboard side as I can clean it out and put “un-essential” items in one place (for quick unloading once at St Lucia).  I attacked all starboard storage areas including the cabinets, floor board storage, head and under the bed storage – it was a huge undertaking, but a good work day.  I removed everything from the area, determined if usefulness, sorted it.  If it made the “keep” pile, it was cleaned. Once everything was removed, I cleaned the storage area and returned the clean, keep items and inventoried the area.   After working on the starboard side, I started working on the galley (not the salon seating storage areas as that is its own task).  It was hard to really get through the galley area when there is so much food. I don’t want to discard anything including the expired food for fear that we might need to eat it – guess I will need to do that when we get ashore.  I did inventory the plate ware, glass ware, utensils, pots, pans, baking items, etc…when we get ashore I will have to take everything out, sort, clean, inventory and place in storage areas that make more sense to us.

In addition to all of my cleaning and inventory work, I managed to get 2 more loads of laundry done so we all have clean clothes.  This time we only used ¼ tank for 2 loads, much better on the delicate cycle.  I know it sounds like a no brainer, but having the low suds laundry detergent is great – but it just doesn’t smell as nice as my Tide Lavender from home.   We toasted our ½ way mark with rum, vodka and gin (not mixed together silly, the boys had rum and diet; I had vodka sprite and Marvin and gin).  I thought the vodka would help me sleep but unfortunately it eluded me most of the night.  Between the pounding of the boat, the light from the navigation station and the squeaking of the navigation chair I got about 3 hours of sleep – made for a tough shift.  We were heading in the wrong direction with full sails up and 23 knots of wind.  So, I woke Matt up to help me jibe the boat.  We did and lost all boat speed so we tacked back but took a different angle.  He headed back to bed so I could finish my shift. By the time my replacement came up, an hour late because he overslept, I crashed and slept hard.