Wednesday, April 15, 2009Tumultuous tempest
After 12 days my outside bobble hat is dry, hurrah. Crikey, there's one hell of a tempest going on out there, much ado about nothing really, hopefully it will be tamed like the shrew soon enough... Has been blowing old boots - that's about 50+knots all day, that old carrots been dancing one hell of a jig hanging off the parachute anchor - thank goodness for that - without 'ee I reckon we would have pulled off about 12 360's by now, she is rough as hell.... The windmills been in the water a couple of times, but seems ok, one of the cabin bags has been torn off the bulkhead by a wave over the deck, and there's regular waves trying to get into the old hotel carrots cabin with me, trying their best to smash the hatch asunder but shes holding up ok. Only dry space for hundreds of miles see! Hell of a racket waves thundering around and the rain lashing the cabin - solution = turns up the radio... Some of them waves completely envelop the boat as they break right over her, what a strange feeling as the whole boaT IS CARRIED ALONG IN THE WAVE and we just hang on inside.... Went outside to stretch the old legs this afternoon and it is quite something to see...white water all over and frog in throat size waves.... Good old girl she's hanging in there and staying right side up....hopefully storm relenting overnight..hope so since you can get out of the boat by reading but the violent motion does start to gnaw at the nerves a little...at least we're still in deep water. Weather not favorable for NZ approach unilt Sun/Mon... Looks like i'll probably finsh Don Quixote after all.... Bill of Fare R/V Flying Carrot 20 April 2009 Breakfast: dehydrated swiss muesli Luncheon: Haribo Tangfastics Peparami Supper: boil in bag sausages, baked beans and egg Rice pudding Note to crew: there will be no more after dinner cigarettes or cigars due to the exhaustion of tobacco stores onboard. Apologies.posted by Olly Hicks @ 4:19 AM
