Sailing again!

MFT: PASSIONFRUITE MOUSSE
LFP: Sailing again…

Hallo! We are back at sea! We started up with sea watches again and got right back into the swing of things. We have officially finished HALF the cruise (it’s been just over 3 weeks now). So the students are being given more and more responsibility by the staff & crew during watches. Also they have a lab practical coming up at the end of the week plus some new assignments to get checked off for on the boat. This means I mostly try to stay out the way as they need to ask the staff/crew for clarification/questions ect.

We started with mid watch (2300-0300) and got a nice dry watch (woohoo). Just before we came on the bioluminescence was crazy nice (like our wake had these gorgeous blue blobs) but then it stopped. We set the main at the start of the watch (ow my poor hands) and then set the Jib & JT. We even set the Fish during the watch. All in all, we’ve got more sails on now then ever! Cause of our course, we can mostly sail sans motor and NOT into the big swell. So everyone is feeling much better and a lot less seasick! In addition, we are starting to chart various stars (for navigation and charting purposes). Watches have gotten busier now that we have more sails to deal with (at the first sign of squalls we have to strike the Fish and JT). Moreover, because a student is now shadowing an watch instructor, we tend to be one hand less for various jobs.


During class today, the students got to talk about the Marquesas and their impressions. Everyone is still pretty tired out from the week of intense shore activities. Plus now we are back to the weird sleep schedule so I imagine all of us will take a couple of days to get back in the rhythm of sleeping whenever. We had afternoon watch today and then for snack, Sayzie made the best thing ever! She remembered an old conversation a couple of weeks ago where I said that my favorite dessert was passionfruit mousse. Apparently no one else had ever heard of that (common in Miami and fancy restaurants). Anyways, she made it today for snack! I had about 3 helpings and tried my best to clean the bowl out as much as possible (obviously to save the dishwasher some work not because I love it so much). That snack rather made my day! This was good because we had galley cleanup (with some nasty spills everywhere and tons of oil on the griddle from hamburger lunch). In addition this coming morning after dawn watch we get to do dawn cleanup (urgh).  All in all, life is back on the ship. However, I now have a couple of creature comforts in the form of puffy cheetos and dorritos plus some candy! These make things better for example when lunch consist of hamburgers (not too much for me to eat). I’ll post photos soon I promise!

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