I survived!!!
The Caribbean.
We did manage to find our way here, after a rather rough crossing. Luckily the waves were coming from behind. It could have been worse. Even so, I managed to shrink my stomach somewhat ( kind of annyoing now when I take food that I think I can eat and then feel full after about half of it or so...=). I'm sooo happy to be in a still lagoon and be able to walk off the boat to someting that definetively doesn't move too much.
The crossing quickly settled inquite a comfortable routine; sleeping, eating, doing watches and rinsing the boat, watching movies and sometimes a trip or two down into the drug cabinet to settle my stomach... Played a great joke on James. Yves told people not to forget to check the Navtex and Satcom C for messages before handing over the watch, so that you leave it empty. Ben and James needlessly reminded me a few times, so one night watch I read and marked the Navtex, but I didn't tear the paper off. It was a perfect night to do it; there must have been at least three meters of messages in a neat pile on the floor when I handed over the watch to James. He didn't check it until after I'd gone off to bed, and apparently he was sooooo close to calling me to have me come up and fix it before he saw that I actually had read it. I was VERY proud of that one... =))
About halfway King Neptune was due to arrive. Luckily for me I had found the bucket with food waste and had managed to sneak off during the night before to empty it, so his visit was rescheduled to the day after, with much less food waste avaliable. I saw it coming, so I hid myself in the toilet for a bit, but when they threatened to give me a special baptism of my own later on I felt that I had to come out. It wasn't the worst Neptuni I've been on, nor the easiest. But hopefully I can count it as my last. Just have to get Yves to give me a certificate, and stop him from making up new ones just for little old me...
And now I'm in St Maarten. Quite warm and humid, and lots of biting insects. Haven't seen much of the island yet, have been busy with catching up with Nick. I'm very happy I got to see him a couple of nights, and the rest of the crew had a blast teasing me about spending time with Nick and not going partying with them. But then again, I've been laughing at them during the days when they've been hung over and tired... But now that sweet time is over, he went today and we don't know when or if we'll get another chance to catch up 'n' stuff again. The life of a yachtie...
Now it's work work and work. We're almost en route for a charter next week, so I've spent the last couple of days trying to finish off some varnish work (at least so that it doesn't look like shit), detailing boat and bleaching the decks. It's very exciting work since the deck wash pump has started to break down whenever I need it the most. It's amazing how clearly you can hear the engineer swearing in the engine room when you're on the Sun Deck telling him that the pressure is gone -again- and that you could really use some water right about now (helst nyss). And of course, as soon as I've finished shammying a deck we get a shower...
Finally got new shorts! Before going home on vacation I managed to rip both of my shorts, and I've been in need for new ones for a long time. Luckily Kaz managed to find me new ones down here, so now I've got new, omfortable short shorts with stretch and quite reasonable pockets! Hourray hourray! And the new lady fit stretchy tshirts have come. Early christmas! Ans speaking of that really have to remember to tell Ben tomorrow that since we're most probably going to be quite busy on the 25th we shoud celebrate christmas the 24th and open the gifts then, like normal people do... >=)
Hopefully we'll get some dayworkers to help us tomorrow. Otherwise it's going to be a few late nights, I think. Somehow it feels wrong that the sun goes down and half past five and that it's still so warm... The evenings just disappear, especially if you work a bit later...
Too bad that it's such a mission to get anywhere around here. You can't really walk, so if you don't have a car or boat you have to take taxis, and they're not cheap. At least it's fairly easy to find a cab, it's not like southern France where taxis are rare to non-existent...
ADAM, if you read this, happy birthday in a couple of days. I'll try to remember, but this is a small world of it's own, so it's very easy to forget that important things like birthdays happens in the big world. Hope u're doing all right in school and are having fun.
Kiss kiss
/mita=)
We did manage to find our way here, after a rather rough crossing. Luckily the waves were coming from behind. It could have been worse. Even so, I managed to shrink my stomach somewhat ( kind of annyoing now when I take food that I think I can eat and then feel full after about half of it or so...=). I'm sooo happy to be in a still lagoon and be able to walk off the boat to someting that definetively doesn't move too much.
The crossing quickly settled inquite a comfortable routine; sleeping, eating, doing watches and rinsing the boat, watching movies and sometimes a trip or two down into the drug cabinet to settle my stomach... Played a great joke on James. Yves told people not to forget to check the Navtex and Satcom C for messages before handing over the watch, so that you leave it empty. Ben and James needlessly reminded me a few times, so one night watch I read and marked the Navtex, but I didn't tear the paper off. It was a perfect night to do it; there must have been at least three meters of messages in a neat pile on the floor when I handed over the watch to James. He didn't check it until after I'd gone off to bed, and apparently he was sooooo close to calling me to have me come up and fix it before he saw that I actually had read it. I was VERY proud of that one... =))
About halfway King Neptune was due to arrive. Luckily for me I had found the bucket with food waste and had managed to sneak off during the night before to empty it, so his visit was rescheduled to the day after, with much less food waste avaliable. I saw it coming, so I hid myself in the toilet for a bit, but when they threatened to give me a special baptism of my own later on I felt that I had to come out. It wasn't the worst Neptuni I've been on, nor the easiest. But hopefully I can count it as my last. Just have to get Yves to give me a certificate, and stop him from making up new ones just for little old me...
And now I'm in St Maarten. Quite warm and humid, and lots of biting insects. Haven't seen much of the island yet, have been busy with catching up with Nick. I'm very happy I got to see him a couple of nights, and the rest of the crew had a blast teasing me about spending time with Nick and not going partying with them. But then again, I've been laughing at them during the days when they've been hung over and tired... But now that sweet time is over, he went today and we don't know when or if we'll get another chance to catch up 'n' stuff again. The life of a yachtie...
Now it's work work and work. We're almost en route for a charter next week, so I've spent the last couple of days trying to finish off some varnish work (at least so that it doesn't look like shit), detailing boat and bleaching the decks. It's very exciting work since the deck wash pump has started to break down whenever I need it the most. It's amazing how clearly you can hear the engineer swearing in the engine room when you're on the Sun Deck telling him that the pressure is gone -again- and that you could really use some water right about now (helst nyss). And of course, as soon as I've finished shammying a deck we get a shower...
Finally got new shorts! Before going home on vacation I managed to rip both of my shorts, and I've been in need for new ones for a long time. Luckily Kaz managed to find me new ones down here, so now I've got new, omfortable short shorts with stretch and quite reasonable pockets! Hourray hourray! And the new lady fit stretchy tshirts have come. Early christmas! Ans speaking of that really have to remember to tell Ben tomorrow that since we're most probably going to be quite busy on the 25th we shoud celebrate christmas the 24th and open the gifts then, like normal people do... >=)
Hopefully we'll get some dayworkers to help us tomorrow. Otherwise it's going to be a few late nights, I think. Somehow it feels wrong that the sun goes down and half past five and that it's still so warm... The evenings just disappear, especially if you work a bit later...
Too bad that it's such a mission to get anywhere around here. You can't really walk, so if you don't have a car or boat you have to take taxis, and they're not cheap. At least it's fairly easy to find a cab, it's not like southern France where taxis are rare to non-existent...
ADAM, if you read this, happy birthday in a couple of days. I'll try to remember, but this is a small world of it's own, so it's very easy to forget that important things like birthdays happens in the big world. Hope u're doing all right in school and are having fun.
Kiss kiss
/mita=)
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