Thursday, July 8, 2010

Turning a corner

So we've finally got a kite up, but it's to port when this is supposed to be a starboard pole parade kind of race. This is the first day we've spent time out of our foulies, with just a bit of watery sun poking through. It looks like the high is forming alright, hoping it holds together and lets us join up and have some good sailing.

Important trip notes: food- last night was another really good meal from chef James, Asian style braised pork which had bits of potatoe, ginger, red pepper, lime rind, and I'm getting hungry again just thinking of it. Tonight will be an Italian dish of some sort, thawing out now. The other significant news was the head, which had a backwards-installed choker valve which worked fine until some "real" material was required to pass through.There've been some fabulous poo jokes flying around the boat today, and some darn funny attempts made to clear what we thought was a blockage- foghorn in the bowl, upside down gallon water bottle stepped on, etc. Most involved splashing, and the horn produced a finely atomised mist blowing out of the bowl that I thought was particularly amusing.

Kite change being requested now, so gotta run.

3 comments:

Kris Helm said...

Getting a real thrill tracking your progress. Thanks for taking the time to blog.

Bill Kneller said...

Shawn - great blog entries on your voyage across the Pacific. We're posting status on the J/30 forum so all can root for you. Good Luck!

Prometheus said...

I think that's why they call it a Joker valve.
Fight on you guys!