I forgot to say… ha ha ha… we are back in the “real” world and we are in need of a “group” like AA or something…
“Hi, I’m Captain Pam”
“Hi, captain Pam”
“I’ve been on the hard for 3 weeks now… my friends at home don’t understand when driving a car I tell them it is on the port… it is hard to tell everyone about my travels cuz it is hard to explain… when people ask how was the trip – all I can say is “amazing” – what is there to say… I have a hard time wasting water when I clean out a dish… there is so many food options I don’t know what to do… I can use as much toilet paper as I want and I feel guilty… my kids don’t recognize me cuz my skin color is so dark… I’m in way better shape than anyone I meet… in the morning I wake up with a bombardment of thoughts and to-do lists that used to be “normal” in my past life but boating I would wake up and have a quiet morning of God’s beautiful world then think of things to do for the day depending on the weather… I am obsessed with checking the wind direction and weather… I forget we have a refrigerator… it’s raining and windy outside and I feel everyone should be off work and just wait till the weather wind gets better… when a hot night I’d rather hop in the Chesapeake than take a shower… I don’t like Air conditioning then again I have never loved air conditioning… of course air conditioning has it’s place but when I came home someone had left the AC on to 68 degrees!!! My poor electric bill!!!...
I could continue to whine but I won’t.
Ha ha
Have a nice time
Pam
Monday, August 24, 2009
Saturday, August 22, 2009
surprise Blog - life after cricket
Some of you have been missing my blogs. Well here is an update on life after Cricket. Work has been busy - too busy for me since i did not really want to jump in with all my body so fast. I was thinkin' I'd get some things cleaned up and then get stuff ready for Sept 8th when people go back to school/work. One couple said as we left Deltaville for home, "when you get home you will need a group to attend of sailors displaced." I laughed and thought it was funny but he was so right!
You all should see my calendar! Most all the weekends are full of this training or that, this MRID meeting or that, church meetings this or that, going to visit Annie in chicago (she is going to school there, this year at North Park), ... I have scheduled one weekend "open" a month sept and Oct. for Ben and I to do fun stuff. Plus we want to go camping of course. During the week, I have so many projects that I need to fit into my regular work stuff, accouting, taxes, financial projections then add i.e. make videos for the web and also videos of ASL training classes and a Deaf Awareness demo DVD. All this and pick up extra interpreting hours cuz we happen to be short interpreters in the busy season. Oh don't forget my mom and visiting her once a week, I have a hubby I want to do things with, I have church thursday night youth/young adult groups, wednesday is my group, mrid fund raisers, mrid meetings, etc... are any of you getting the overwhelmed feeling? eeeeek! oh and I want to visit the land and feed the birds. When it gets like this, when i see the hand writing on the wall then I usually retreat to the woods and take all my schedules with me and start slashing out things and making priorities, I schedule my time differently. many times i don't do this until October, but this year I think it might happen the first week of september. i do delgate a lot of my work (right staff?!) I'm going to have to prioritize better.
on top of the overwhelmingness XANDER KITTY IS LOST!!!!
he is my chubby orange tabby! he loves everyone and lets you hug him anytime you want. (which is not like Kiko) he is mellow and loves to loaf around the house, he loves training classes held here at the house so he can sit on each person's lap during a professional class. on wednesday night we was outside - there was rain coming - he has not come home since!!! I am so depressed and distraught! I love that cat and he loves us. he is a home-body not meant for outdoor living, he likes to sit on the porch and watch people... the office staff will miss him but not as much as Jase and I. (It is jason's cat) I am sad sad sad! I'm not feelin in the mood to do too many things right now. yes, i have put out flyers, called all the places, put an ad in craigs list... etc. i have left no stone unturned and nothing. so pray for Xander-bibbles!
so that is life after cricket!!!!
You all should see my calendar! Most all the weekends are full of this training or that, this MRID meeting or that, church meetings this or that, going to visit Annie in chicago (she is going to school there, this year at North Park), ... I have scheduled one weekend "open" a month sept and Oct. for Ben and I to do fun stuff. Plus we want to go camping of course. During the week, I have so many projects that I need to fit into my regular work stuff, accouting, taxes, financial projections then add i.e. make videos for the web and also videos of ASL training classes and a Deaf Awareness demo DVD. All this and pick up extra interpreting hours cuz we happen to be short interpreters in the busy season. Oh don't forget my mom and visiting her once a week, I have a hubby I want to do things with, I have church thursday night youth/young adult groups, wednesday is my group, mrid fund raisers, mrid meetings, etc... are any of you getting the overwhelmed feeling? eeeeek! oh and I want to visit the land and feed the birds. When it gets like this, when i see the hand writing on the wall then I usually retreat to the woods and take all my schedules with me and start slashing out things and making priorities, I schedule my time differently. many times i don't do this until October, but this year I think it might happen the first week of september. i do delgate a lot of my work (right staff?!) I'm going to have to prioritize better.
on top of the overwhelmingness XANDER KITTY IS LOST!!!!
he is my chubby orange tabby! he loves everyone and lets you hug him anytime you want. (which is not like Kiko) he is mellow and loves to loaf around the house, he loves training classes held here at the house so he can sit on each person's lap during a professional class. on wednesday night we was outside - there was rain coming - he has not come home since!!! I am so depressed and distraught! I love that cat and he loves us. he is a home-body not meant for outdoor living, he likes to sit on the porch and watch people... the office staff will miss him but not as much as Jase and I. (It is jason's cat) I am sad sad sad! I'm not feelin in the mood to do too many things right now. yes, i have put out flyers, called all the places, put an ad in craigs list... etc. i have left no stone unturned and nothing. so pray for Xander-bibbles!
so that is life after cricket!!!!
Sunday, August 16, 2009
At House - last blog
I'm sure some of you are going to miss these daily blogs.
We are back. we are almost to the daily grind. That starts on monday for me. I will be in the office.
now I need a group for displaced sailors re-emerging back into the "real" world and daily grind.
I have to shift my mind to having a to-do list, fitting all the many projects back into the schedule, looking at a calendar, knowing where I will be going every moment of the day before it happens, planning, washing clothes, making food, being lazy, etc... sounds overwhelming right now, but I will get into the swing of things. I just need some time to transition and mourn a bit.
i am happy i have a job to come back to, friends who love me and miss me and I them, happy to see my family, happy to have refrigeration and ice, happy to have a squishy bed, happy to see the cats (although Kiko has a funny way of showing love), happy to feeling loved by God no matte where I reside or what I do.
I will be back on top of the game by september 8th. the day after labor day.
here are a few pictures to end my pictures. I'm sure ben will put some on facebook.
until next year.
Signing off
Captain Pam
We are back. we are almost to the daily grind. That starts on monday for me. I will be in the office.
now I need a group for displaced sailors re-emerging back into the "real" world and daily grind.
I have to shift my mind to having a to-do list, fitting all the many projects back into the schedule, looking at a calendar, knowing where I will be going every moment of the day before it happens, planning, washing clothes, making food, being lazy, etc... sounds overwhelming right now, but I will get into the swing of things. I just need some time to transition and mourn a bit.
i am happy i have a job to come back to, friends who love me and miss me and I them, happy to see my family, happy to have refrigeration and ice, happy to have a squishy bed, happy to see the cats (although Kiko has a funny way of showing love), happy to feeling loved by God no matte where I reside or what I do.
I will be back on top of the game by september 8th. the day after labor day.
here are a few pictures to end my pictures. I'm sure ben will put some on facebook.
until next year.
Signing off
Captain Pam
Wednesday, August 12, 2009
Captain Pam!
Captain Pam
Today was haul out. I finally earned captain Pam.
Normally at the last dock they drove your boat or they pushed the boat with a power dinghy and would bring the boat to get hauled out. Here I met John. I asked "How do you do it here?" my worst fear his answer," you back it up for us". I replied, " do you back it up? I am a new boat owner." He said "bring it around back it up the best you can and we will catch you with your dock lines. " my heart was pounding! I told Ben what John had said. Ben said "oh you can do it." But I have never done it before. In theory I could do it... I think. So john I think went to get two more guys to help catch me. (a total of four men standing at the haul out slip my heart pounding , i had a lump in my throat and i actually was nervous shaking just slightly But I did not need anyones helped I backed it in perfectly and I mean perfectly. I was getting close and John said, " good job captain!" I smiled huge on the inside!! This was the first guy to call me captain during the whole summer. I watched as we would dock other places and men call each other Captain all the time. On the radio they address each other captain. Never have I been called captain all summer and there were times it could have happened. I think they have called ben captain on the radio and at dock. But not me. Even though I've always been the driver and the person that brings the money in to pay and the guy that writes in the log book. So here was John he said I backed it up better than guys that had been boating for 15 years. I did not get a big head cuz I knew there was no wind. Add a 3 mph wind and I'd have problems. But I'm happy with my end of year accomplishment! So what there was no wind. I still backed up a monsterly big boat that does not like to back.
I am so tired emotionally and physically. This morning I scrubed the deck. All the fiberglass. Tired! Then a guy from the boatyard showed us about our engine and how to maintenance it! Fun. I learned so much about the engine. Way cool. My brain hurts today from all that work. Deanna and Dave are here to pick us up. So we went out to eat at cocomos. Tomorrow we need to get up early and finish a few tasks. Right now they all are dnghying o. The biopbosphoresence bay. I stayed back to get to bed. I'm getting old when sleep sounds better than playing in the bay.
God has blessed me and keeps blessing me. ! Amen
Owen is happy to be on the hard
Pam
Today was haul out. I finally earned captain Pam.
Normally at the last dock they drove your boat or they pushed the boat with a power dinghy and would bring the boat to get hauled out. Here I met John. I asked "How do you do it here?" my worst fear his answer," you back it up for us". I replied, " do you back it up? I am a new boat owner." He said "bring it around back it up the best you can and we will catch you with your dock lines. " my heart was pounding! I told Ben what John had said. Ben said "oh you can do it." But I have never done it before. In theory I could do it... I think. So john I think went to get two more guys to help catch me. (a total of four men standing at the haul out slip my heart pounding , i had a lump in my throat and i actually was nervous shaking just slightly But I did not need anyones helped I backed it in perfectly and I mean perfectly. I was getting close and John said, " good job captain!" I smiled huge on the inside!! This was the first guy to call me captain during the whole summer. I watched as we would dock other places and men call each other Captain all the time. On the radio they address each other captain. Never have I been called captain all summer and there were times it could have happened. I think they have called ben captain on the radio and at dock. But not me. Even though I've always been the driver and the person that brings the money in to pay and the guy that writes in the log book. So here was John he said I backed it up better than guys that had been boating for 15 years. I did not get a big head cuz I knew there was no wind. Add a 3 mph wind and I'd have problems. But I'm happy with my end of year accomplishment! So what there was no wind. I still backed up a monsterly big boat that does not like to back.
I am so tired emotionally and physically. This morning I scrubed the deck. All the fiberglass. Tired! Then a guy from the boatyard showed us about our engine and how to maintenance it! Fun. I learned so much about the engine. Way cool. My brain hurts today from all that work. Deanna and Dave are here to pick us up. So we went out to eat at cocomos. Tomorrow we need to get up early and finish a few tasks. Right now they all are dnghying o. The biopbosphoresence bay. I stayed back to get to bed. I'm getting old when sleep sounds better than playing in the bay.
God has blessed me and keeps blessing me. ! Amen
Owen is happy to be on the hard
Pam
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Amazingly boring log. Read if you like
Storms and cooler weather!
We dinghy in to deltaville and then the storm came so Owen is manning the ship. Good thing he loves storms. He Sits under the dodger and then tries to catch the drips. Today was a day of cleaning and winterizing. Tomorrow the engine will have it's 500 hour check. They are going to do show and tell. We hope they will show us how to maintenance and winterized our boat.
Today nothing big. We tried to stay cool. It was 96 today. I'm amazed at how you can get more used to hot weather day after day.
Oh we ate dinner in the community porch and listened tobstoties and learned some wise words from experienced sailors. There is an overwhelming amount of things to learn! We have our winter cut out for us to learn single side band and etc. Now I shall eat nutella and crackers and go to bed in a cool cabin! Yippy.
God showers us with people we need in our lives.
Good might
Pam
We dinghy in to deltaville and then the storm came so Owen is manning the ship. Good thing he loves storms. He Sits under the dodger and then tries to catch the drips. Today was a day of cleaning and winterizing. Tomorrow the engine will have it's 500 hour check. They are going to do show and tell. We hope they will show us how to maintenance and winterized our boat.
Today nothing big. We tried to stay cool. It was 96 today. I'm amazed at how you can get more used to hot weather day after day.
Oh we ate dinner in the community porch and listened tobstoties and learned some wise words from experienced sailors. There is an overwhelming amount of things to learn! We have our winter cut out for us to learn single side band and etc. Now I shall eat nutella and crackers and go to bed in a cool cabin! Yippy.
God showers us with people we need in our lives.
Good might
Pam
Monday, August 10, 2009
Hotter than yesterday!!!
Too hot to blog
Todays normal temp 100
Heat index 110
Our boat is a solar collector and now is radiating the days heat inside. The misquitos are hungry outside with not a breath of wind again to shoosh them away.
The boat luckily is still in the water due to waiting for boatyard stuff.
I got up early this morning to clean while in the coolness!
We did go out to dinner. I'm stuffed and hot.
Notyet miserable but the evening is not over I'll tell you all tomorrow.
That's all the summer is coming to and end soon and you few people that read this will no longer know what is up with my life. Maybe I'll blog about work? Ha ha just kidding.
Good night all
Grace and peace
Pam
Todays normal temp 100
Heat index 110
Our boat is a solar collector and now is radiating the days heat inside. The misquitos are hungry outside with not a breath of wind again to shoosh them away.
The boat luckily is still in the water due to waiting for boatyard stuff.
I got up early this morning to clean while in the coolness!
We did go out to dinner. I'm stuffed and hot.
Notyet miserable but the evening is not over I'll tell you all tomorrow.
That's all the summer is coming to and end soon and you few people that read this will no longer know what is up with my life. Maybe I'll blog about work? Ha ha just kidding.
Good night all
Grace and peace
Pam
Sunday, August 9, 2009
Hot and humid oh my!
Heat index 105 no wind not even a breath!!!
Today was a quiet day. We slept in cuz it was cool. Then biked to coffee shop slurped up iced coffee. Then back. We slowly took Down the sails. Sad sad sad time to take the boat out. It is going to be even hotter tomorrow and now we will be on the hard where no wind not cool water oh my!
Today we took down a sail then jumped in the water. Took down a second sail jumped in the water. Ditto. Then set the sails on land to fold up. Then hopped in the pool. Hot hot. Then ate tuna fish sandwiches. Hopped in the water. Then we went for an evening dinghy ride up the river. That was the highlight of my day!! It was a bit cool. Well there was a breeze from the boat. It was beautiful and romantic as the sunset. and we explored the riverside. Oh wait I. Forgot. Owen now knows how to sit in a basket of a bike! Yes we brought Owen to coffee with us. He was so adorable in the basket. He was nervous but then he ducked his head down low and just was quiet.
Amazing cat I'd say.
Ok back to hot and there are misquitos and no see ums around tonight due to no wind!!! Ahhh! I think it is hot. When Sharon and I were little we stayed at her house without AC. We would put ice cubes in our bellybuttons and let them slowly melt. I would do jsut about anything for an ice cube. At least we do have small fans! That helps a bunch. Well have a nice night sleeping in your cool Minnesota air.
Hugs n kisses
Live from above
Pam
Today was a quiet day. We slept in cuz it was cool. Then biked to coffee shop slurped up iced coffee. Then back. We slowly took Down the sails. Sad sad sad time to take the boat out. It is going to be even hotter tomorrow and now we will be on the hard where no wind not cool water oh my!
Today we took down a sail then jumped in the water. Took down a second sail jumped in the water. Ditto. Then set the sails on land to fold up. Then hopped in the pool. Hot hot. Then ate tuna fish sandwiches. Hopped in the water. Then we went for an evening dinghy ride up the river. That was the highlight of my day!! It was a bit cool. Well there was a breeze from the boat. It was beautiful and romantic as the sunset. and we explored the riverside. Oh wait I. Forgot. Owen now knows how to sit in a basket of a bike! Yes we brought Owen to coffee with us. He was so adorable in the basket. He was nervous but then he ducked his head down low and just was quiet.
Amazing cat I'd say.
Ok back to hot and there are misquitos and no see ums around tonight due to no wind!!! Ahhh! I think it is hot. When Sharon and I were little we stayed at her house without AC. We would put ice cubes in our bellybuttons and let them slowly melt. I would do jsut about anything for an ice cube. At least we do have small fans! That helps a bunch. Well have a nice night sleeping in your cool Minnesota air.
Hugs n kisses
Live from above
Pam
Saturday, August 8, 2009
Night watch continue & check my new website!
Night shift continued - check out my website!
5:00 am
Windy
Wavey
We have arrived early to deltaville. We actually arrived to the enterance at three am right at the time of my shift. So I am wasting time tacking back and forth cuz the enterence to deltaville you barely want to tackle it during the day let alone the night. It is curvey and a small channel and I have grounded twice in the day light. So ben went to bed and said enjoy sailing around. Oh and by the way you are almost out of house batteries. Whcih means I have to run the engine for a while. So I set out straight east. Trimmed the sail inefficiently so I would go slow and I still ended up cruising at 6 knots. Crazy!
Then I was headed for the shipping lane. I saw a ship way off. Plenty of time to catch it on radar. I could not sight it. I played with the gain. Still no pink blob on my screen. I thought I'll wait to see how close he gets and I hope he stays in the shipping lane and I will stay out of it. I got as close to the lane as I wanted then tacked back directly west. He must think I'm silly to make a 180 degree turn I'll be out here the whole night. If he thought that he would be right. Ha ha ha. This time I drew a picture of the light configuration. I'm not tired and am wide awake. I know what I saw which is the opposite of what I thought I learned. I can't wait to look it up tomorrow in our sailing book. There really is less traffic here than all those freighters sitting around in the Atlantic. And I am sailing 5 miles east then 5 miles west. Then I get to do it again cuz I am jammin in the wind. Bonus I got the cape horn to work! Gotta love that mechanical thingie of an auto pilot.
5;44am the moon is setting and the sun us rising. It is partly cloudy and still a bit hazey. I just tacked back east to enjoy 5 knots and to watch the pink become the sunrise. Welp tonight is the last sail of the season. I have my list of things to do and then my mind has already started a work to do list.
Make videos: promo video of training classed and teaching videos. Oh hey all those that have not seen my website lately bop on www.aslis.com. Let me know if the opening video works. I went to wifi last week and bens computer (yes a mac) his worked fine and of course my computer it did not work. Grrrrr! So all you check it out. Let me know what worked or didn't and for any grammar mistakes. Deanna edited and produced the videos. It was fun. The first video took us two hours for two minutes but then I got the hang of not making so many mistakes. More to come.
Arrived and took a shower and shaved! Then we biked to a late lunch yum crab cakes ! Then walked the pier re-met a couple we met two weeks ago. Toured theirboat. Now to nappy after watching a big storm again.
Anchor is tight I shall sleep soundly!
Grace Pam
5:00 am
Windy
Wavey
We have arrived early to deltaville. We actually arrived to the enterance at three am right at the time of my shift. So I am wasting time tacking back and forth cuz the enterence to deltaville you barely want to tackle it during the day let alone the night. It is curvey and a small channel and I have grounded twice in the day light. So ben went to bed and said enjoy sailing around. Oh and by the way you are almost out of house batteries. Whcih means I have to run the engine for a while. So I set out straight east. Trimmed the sail inefficiently so I would go slow and I still ended up cruising at 6 knots. Crazy!
Then I was headed for the shipping lane. I saw a ship way off. Plenty of time to catch it on radar. I could not sight it. I played with the gain. Still no pink blob on my screen. I thought I'll wait to see how close he gets and I hope he stays in the shipping lane and I will stay out of it. I got as close to the lane as I wanted then tacked back directly west. He must think I'm silly to make a 180 degree turn I'll be out here the whole night. If he thought that he would be right. Ha ha ha. This time I drew a picture of the light configuration. I'm not tired and am wide awake. I know what I saw which is the opposite of what I thought I learned. I can't wait to look it up tomorrow in our sailing book. There really is less traffic here than all those freighters sitting around in the Atlantic. And I am sailing 5 miles east then 5 miles west. Then I get to do it again cuz I am jammin in the wind. Bonus I got the cape horn to work! Gotta love that mechanical thingie of an auto pilot.
5;44am the moon is setting and the sun us rising. It is partly cloudy and still a bit hazey. I just tacked back east to enjoy 5 knots and to watch the pink become the sunrise. Welp tonight is the last sail of the season. I have my list of things to do and then my mind has already started a work to do list.
Make videos: promo video of training classed and teaching videos. Oh hey all those that have not seen my website lately bop on www.aslis.com. Let me know if the opening video works. I went to wifi last week and bens computer (yes a mac) his worked fine and of course my computer it did not work. Grrrrr! So all you check it out. Let me know what worked or didn't and for any grammar mistakes. Deanna edited and produced the videos. It was fun. The first video took us two hours for two minutes but then I got the hang of not making so many mistakes. More to come.
Arrived and took a shower and shaved! Then we biked to a late lunch yum crab cakes ! Then walked the pier re-met a couple we met two weeks ago. Toured theirboat. Now to nappy after watching a big storm again.
Anchor is tight I shall sleep soundly!
Grace Pam
Friday, August 7, 2009
Over night sail again
Sailing and blogging
Here we are doing another night sail. We both really liked sailing at night. It is cool and cool. I am on the 9-11 pm shift then the 3-7 am.
Right now relaxing light winds. No big or little boat traffic. The stars are just ready to pop out. The moon is orange and huge looking as it starts to rise. I can't get the cape horn auto pilot to work cuz the winds are too light.
I had a great day of taking turns everytwo hours. I played the mandolin. Sang songs. Called people. Fished. Looked for dolphins. Only saw a few fins far away. Read a little.
Oh here is random (can u tell it is a slow day) I look one step removed from being a homeless person. I have not washed my hair is days. I'm not telling how long either. Who knows what shampoo you use in salt water? Anyone want to google that?
Ha right now on the gps I think I am moving backwards even tho I am pointed north my course over ground is south. Ha ha ha. Well we will get there sometime tomorrow the wind is supposed to pick up. Ben is making beans and spam while I am on duty.
Oh here is an Owen story. Our cupboards all slide open he has finally figured how to open the bathroom locker. Oh he is so mischief at night and loud. He keeps me awake for a good hour at night so this night sailing will be good for him. I will be ready to play with him!!!!
Hummm supper smells good!
Playing on the stereo are many classical songs and such. Ben grew up with classical. I played piano mostly classical. I like it but during my night morning shift I will play any song I can sing to so I can stay awake. These songs now make me want to snooze and it is only 9:48 p.
Today I also saw many foofer size fishjump out of the water happily dancing and twisting and turning.
Note to self. When you hear a lot of birds chirping out here it is probably a fish trap area! They like to purch on the poles. I was hearing birds then popped on radar to find a disturbance in the force fields and sure enough there is a fish trap. Fish traps on the Chesapeake are a bunch of big poles protruding from the water. Very ugly. Hold on ohhh boy it is foggy and still all of a sudden. A big haze has fallen over the moon and me. Back to the fish traps some are poles on a round circle about 60 feet diameter some are in a straight line about the length of a football field. These are mostly not marked on the maps. At night on the radar I just found out what they appear to look like. Good thing I did not run into that. Of course I am only moving at a slow walk so we would bounce off the poles. I think?
Many times before a wind shift the wind goes calm and when it starts up again it is from a different direction like right now. Changing course.
That's all for now. Nighty night all sleep in His arms
Pam
Here we are doing another night sail. We both really liked sailing at night. It is cool and cool. I am on the 9-11 pm shift then the 3-7 am.
Right now relaxing light winds. No big or little boat traffic. The stars are just ready to pop out. The moon is orange and huge looking as it starts to rise. I can't get the cape horn auto pilot to work cuz the winds are too light.
I had a great day of taking turns everytwo hours. I played the mandolin. Sang songs. Called people. Fished. Looked for dolphins. Only saw a few fins far away. Read a little.
Oh here is random (can u tell it is a slow day) I look one step removed from being a homeless person. I have not washed my hair is days. I'm not telling how long either. Who knows what shampoo you use in salt water? Anyone want to google that?
Ha right now on the gps I think I am moving backwards even tho I am pointed north my course over ground is south. Ha ha ha. Well we will get there sometime tomorrow the wind is supposed to pick up. Ben is making beans and spam while I am on duty.
Oh here is an Owen story. Our cupboards all slide open he has finally figured how to open the bathroom locker. Oh he is so mischief at night and loud. He keeps me awake for a good hour at night so this night sailing will be good for him. I will be ready to play with him!!!!
Hummm supper smells good!
Playing on the stereo are many classical songs and such. Ben grew up with classical. I played piano mostly classical. I like it but during my night morning shift I will play any song I can sing to so I can stay awake. These songs now make me want to snooze and it is only 9:48 p.
Today I also saw many foofer size fishjump out of the water happily dancing and twisting and turning.
Note to self. When you hear a lot of birds chirping out here it is probably a fish trap area! They like to purch on the poles. I was hearing birds then popped on radar to find a disturbance in the force fields and sure enough there is a fish trap. Fish traps on the Chesapeake are a bunch of big poles protruding from the water. Very ugly. Hold on ohhh boy it is foggy and still all of a sudden. A big haze has fallen over the moon and me. Back to the fish traps some are poles on a round circle about 60 feet diameter some are in a straight line about the length of a football field. These are mostly not marked on the maps. At night on the radar I just found out what they appear to look like. Good thing I did not run into that. Of course I am only moving at a slow walk so we would bounce off the poles. I think?
Many times before a wind shift the wind goes calm and when it starts up again it is from a different direction like right now. Changing course.
That's all for now. Nighty night all sleep in His arms
Pam
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Day O Lists and storms!
A day of lists
It was stormy again we divided to just "be". So we made a list of things to do, boring but here it is:
Need anchor rode n chain for danforth
Look into navonics system
Take a weather course on how to read the weather
Take a Blue water navigation course
Get our side band radio license
Do insurance stuff
Hatch screen measurements
Measurements for
Tarps-awning
Table
Fan for companionway
Get hand held gps for back up
Rules for registering boat decal? Dinghy too?
Put gloves in chest for anchor emergencies
Honda generator
Hard top dodger in far future
Get power sail book Wallace Ross
Get new flairs
Thing to do at marine:
Fiberglass floor timber support
Meet electrician
Test house battery
Test house system?
Link 10?
Check holding tank and advise
Put screw on electrical panel
Belt cover for engine
Sink drainage
Diesel fuel empty/full gauge!
Cotter pins
Wind transducer?
Why is our anchor light so dim?
Diesel additive
Change fuel filter
Change oil
Uffda! That was a thinking day. We also brought Owen into shore for a walk and supper. Who would have guessed it would down pour. We were ready. We had rain coat and umbrellas. Owen sat snuggly in our back pack. I have some cute pictures of him and Ben. We also strolled thru Hampton college. An adorable old college. We talked about Pentecost and tongues of fire and people that see God but don't believe. How can that be? Well tonight is our second movie night. Kontiki. Have a great sleep! I will cuz I know our anchor is set tight cuz of last nigts storm! Zzzz I love you all. Everyone of you! Oh hi Fozzy how was the bwca? Ben n I prayed for your group. We had to sniff away some sadness for us not being there!
Ok
Zzzzzzzz
It was stormy again we divided to just "be". So we made a list of things to do, boring but here it is:
Need anchor rode n chain for danforth
Look into navonics system
Take a weather course on how to read the weather
Take a Blue water navigation course
Get our side band radio license
Do insurance stuff
Hatch screen measurements
Measurements for
Tarps-awning
Table
Fan for companionway
Get hand held gps for back up
Rules for registering boat decal? Dinghy too?
Put gloves in chest for anchor emergencies
Honda generator
Hard top dodger in far future
Get power sail book Wallace Ross
Get new flairs
Thing to do at marine:
Fiberglass floor timber support
Meet electrician
Test house battery
Test house system?
Link 10?
Check holding tank and advise
Put screw on electrical panel
Belt cover for engine
Sink drainage
Diesel fuel empty/full gauge!
Cotter pins
Wind transducer?
Why is our anchor light so dim?
Diesel additive
Change fuel filter
Change oil
Uffda! That was a thinking day. We also brought Owen into shore for a walk and supper. Who would have guessed it would down pour. We were ready. We had rain coat and umbrellas. Owen sat snuggly in our back pack. I have some cute pictures of him and Ben. We also strolled thru Hampton college. An adorable old college. We talked about Pentecost and tongues of fire and people that see God but don't believe. How can that be? Well tonight is our second movie night. Kontiki. Have a great sleep! I will cuz I know our anchor is set tight cuz of last nigts storm! Zzzz I love you all. Everyone of you! Oh hi Fozzy how was the bwca? Ben n I prayed for your group. We had to sniff away some sadness for us not being there!
Ok
Zzzzzzzz
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Fun house and Day o nothing ahhhh :)
I've been waiting for a slow day to give you the fun house analogy. So here it is then after that my nothing day.
Fun house
Sailing is like a fun house. Ya know when you walk in usually there is a bridge that moves and you grab a rail to try and get thru. Walking from the stern to the bow while sailing you grab the rails and life lines while the footing under you is all wooggie and rockin and bucking.
There is the house where everthing is tipped at a 45 degree angle and you try to walk. While the boat is healed over on a tack. If you go down below trying to get to the bathroom is very funny not to mention navigating to the bow of the boat, trying to open the door and shut the door, ok peeing is an art depending how far you are tipped over and which direction you are tipped.
Fun houses have peep holes to look through. Same does the boat have cute port holes where you see the world rock and roll. It messes with your mind and balance. There even is a shock value of a black cat passing by a port window. Ha ha
Fun houses have mirrors. Well we have one it is mounted just about too high for me to see myself so I don't look too often but when I do stand on my tippie toes the mirror is moving with the boat and I Look funny and I laugh. Also I have seen ben get thinner like a mirror. His hair is getting blonde-white, a pink nose like a clown. ( I have the pink burnt nose too.)
Fun house there are small tunnels to crawl through. We have our cute little bunk. You crawl up one step and fly into bed. Or the aft birth you wiggle in the bed and careful not to hit your head!!
Making food while under way is funny too. You stand at a sharp angle and the stove swivels back and forth. It is an optical illution. The food stays in the tilting sausepan.
While sitting in the captains chair one feels like you are sitting on a bucking bronco. Weeeee! That is fun!
Now the days non events
Day o rest
Got up
Dinghy to coffee shop.
Had coffee iced. 95 degrees humid.
Had devotions bought new bible on iPhone I love it!
Wifi
Went fir a walk
Dinghy back
Made eggs and corn beef hash yum
Turned on fan
Read book
started to think what we need to do to pack up and get ready to start for home.
Ben is watching a twins game on iPhone amazing! Great color
Done for the day
Storm coming yeah! Bring cold water!
That's all folks
Pam
iPhone battery low
Fun house
Sailing is like a fun house. Ya know when you walk in usually there is a bridge that moves and you grab a rail to try and get thru. Walking from the stern to the bow while sailing you grab the rails and life lines while the footing under you is all wooggie and rockin and bucking.
There is the house where everthing is tipped at a 45 degree angle and you try to walk. While the boat is healed over on a tack. If you go down below trying to get to the bathroom is very funny not to mention navigating to the bow of the boat, trying to open the door and shut the door, ok peeing is an art depending how far you are tipped over and which direction you are tipped.
Fun houses have peep holes to look through. Same does the boat have cute port holes where you see the world rock and roll. It messes with your mind and balance. There even is a shock value of a black cat passing by a port window. Ha ha
Fun houses have mirrors. Well we have one it is mounted just about too high for me to see myself so I don't look too often but when I do stand on my tippie toes the mirror is moving with the boat and I Look funny and I laugh. Also I have seen ben get thinner like a mirror. His hair is getting blonde-white, a pink nose like a clown. ( I have the pink burnt nose too.)
Fun house there are small tunnels to crawl through. We have our cute little bunk. You crawl up one step and fly into bed. Or the aft birth you wiggle in the bed and careful not to hit your head!!
Making food while under way is funny too. You stand at a sharp angle and the stove swivels back and forth. It is an optical illution. The food stays in the tilting sausepan.
While sitting in the captains chair one feels like you are sitting on a bucking bronco. Weeeee! That is fun!
Now the days non events
Day o rest
Got up
Dinghy to coffee shop.
Had coffee iced. 95 degrees humid.
Had devotions bought new bible on iPhone I love it!
Wifi
Went fir a walk
Dinghy back
Made eggs and corn beef hash yum
Turned on fan
Read book
started to think what we need to do to pack up and get ready to start for home.
Ben is watching a twins game on iPhone amazing! Great color
Done for the day
Storm coming yeah! Bring cold water!
That's all folks
Pam
iPhone battery low
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Put to sea and back 36 hrs and I'm tired!
First nght sail
It is 3:27 AM. It is my watch. The breeze is light but I am going four knots which is good. I have figured out the cape horn auto pilot so I am not using any electricity. The moon is full and bright. During the night you can see further cuz the big ships have a ton of lights on. My only question is what stinking way are they moving. Sometimes it is easy to tell. Right now there are four huge freight boats all in a line and they are now all anchored. This must be a holding place for the freigters to hang out before they go in to land. At this moment it is peaceful and all is happy. I like happy sailing! I like when the cape horn auto pilot works!! Then I can look around more. Go down below and make some navigation marks. I can eat a peanut and raisin with almond sandwich, yumm. Actually rght now 3:34am the wind is just starting to die down. So I might be a drift soon. It will pick up again. There are not many stars cuz the moon is so bright. About half an hour ago I saw this big bunch o lights moving across my horizon. What way are they going? Then the light configuration changed meaning the just turned. Oh great. I don't want to wake up Ben cuz he will say "it's fine you have plenty of sea room" mind you, I was just about to When I said to myself, you can figure it out. I turned on the radar. Got the target activated and now tracking. It seemed to be turning away from me. But all day today I been playing with the radar in the light and I can't seem to get the direction of the vessels heading. Well it tells me a head but I know for a fact with my eyes that is not the heading. That doesn't seem to bother Ben (then again a lot of thngs don't bother him which is a redeeming quality which I am possessing more of) but this time I eould rather know the heading and I think it worked. ? Well atleast he did go south. Then again I also changed my course until I felt better. The challenge was which way should I head? Phew that all worked out and I didn't have to wake ben. The moon is now starting to change to a peach color. It is quiet out here except for the rigging. Ya know in pirates movie. The davey jones locker one... They had many moon night scenes. The rigging is a silouette the bow sprit is bobbing up and down and you hear the lines moaning in a rythmic fashion. How cool and Erie all at the sametime.
I feel like I am finally out of the way of all the big guys. Ahhh I can and am relaxing. Sailing at night is cooler and has a different feel than during the day. Humm can't describe it. Sorry. I'm just so glad I'm not in clouds rain and too much wind. !!! I will ditto that statement!
Now I can back up. We got up. Got ready to go. It was hot and very humid. Like right now it is wet out here from humidity but not hot. We made it out of the anchorage. It is right next to Langley field. So many F-16 or so flying around two by two in formation. Super loud. There were two huge navy boats a big white boat with the red cross on it. And a handful of freighters. Over load for me. We puttered out of the way and stayed out of the shipping lanes. Oh boy now the moon is turning more to orange as it sets. Looks like I have one more hour with my pal the moon. I'm not tired cuz this is such a new experience just like the movie scenes.
So here is a formula I have been developing. It is called the sleep ratio. If I think the anchor is 50% good. Well then I sleep half the night. If it is 90% good. Then I sleep most of the night. Now if the anchor watch is on I sleep 100% of the night cuz I have had many anchor watches go off when we turn 180 degrees which is good. And 100% of the time I wake up fly out of bed to see whazzz up. But if the anchor watch goes off and I am wide awake then my ratio is low cuz I'm awake and the anchor watch went off for some reason. Now at night sailing if I feel ben will stay awake that adds to my sleepable percentage. If I feel like he wants to sail offf the charts ( we only have a 25 x 25 mile radius of maps. We have gps that goes further but what if the gps fails or the battery runs out. See how much a safety freak I am. And ben is not. I woke up at midnight cuz there was a lot of banging (we had lost our wind so things were flappin) I looked on The map and we were at the furthest corner of the map. Ben yells down as he sees me looking, "I was just going to tack" if I was awake I would have said miles ago, let's tack. I went back to bed but could not sleep even though he was turning around. (the moon is bright orange!!) wowwza!!! Now on my shift which started at 1:20am. I had to start out motoring cuz we used up too much battery on something? Weird. So my first hour and a half I motored away from the four boat congestion. Well to me it was. And now I feel like all is going good at this moment.
Owen likes sailing at night. He was sleeping next to me. Now he is prowling around. How fun! Humans awake in the night. Oh boy!
Today while underway I cooked spam. Tasted like growing up. Spam keeps without refrigeration. I have to admit it was a yummy sandwich.
Wow the moon is orange almost down and a zillion stars are popping out everywhere. It is 4:21am. I have six more miles on thus tack. Today has been the first day of what I thought saili g would be like. Set a course. Watch for boats. Change course if needed. Take turns sailing. We took 2hour shifts during the day and four hour shifts at night. I got to read. Make food. Relax. A few days of this and I'm sure boredom would set in... Well I'd get more crafts done! To night I get to blog a long letter to you all. There is no service out here. But I am on a tack back west to shore so it might happen I get service enough to shoot this out to googlespace.
The moon is no longer lighting up the water and the way. It is getting D A R K!! I can still see two of the four anchorged ships and the beacon light. I can't see where the water ends and the sky starts like I could with the moon bright. Are you all on the edge of your seats with questions of, now what? Well I am. The moon is almost down. Time to play doodle jump or flight control. Wait a light on the dark horizon. Have to pay attention.
It must have been an alien ship cuz it is gone. I have not had any baileys on my shifts.
More later I am so tired ben and I just got back in to anchorage. On the way in we had dolphins playing around us! We even saw them in the waves!!! Also in the waves were sting rays. Oh and the dolphins jumped out of the water like at the zoo!!
Good night zzzzzzzz
Blessings on yours and my sleep!
It is 3:27 AM. It is my watch. The breeze is light but I am going four knots which is good. I have figured out the cape horn auto pilot so I am not using any electricity. The moon is full and bright. During the night you can see further cuz the big ships have a ton of lights on. My only question is what stinking way are they moving. Sometimes it is easy to tell. Right now there are four huge freight boats all in a line and they are now all anchored. This must be a holding place for the freigters to hang out before they go in to land. At this moment it is peaceful and all is happy. I like happy sailing! I like when the cape horn auto pilot works!! Then I can look around more. Go down below and make some navigation marks. I can eat a peanut and raisin with almond sandwich, yumm. Actually rght now 3:34am the wind is just starting to die down. So I might be a drift soon. It will pick up again. There are not many stars cuz the moon is so bright. About half an hour ago I saw this big bunch o lights moving across my horizon. What way are they going? Then the light configuration changed meaning the just turned. Oh great. I don't want to wake up Ben cuz he will say "it's fine you have plenty of sea room" mind you, I was just about to When I said to myself, you can figure it out. I turned on the radar. Got the target activated and now tracking. It seemed to be turning away from me. But all day today I been playing with the radar in the light and I can't seem to get the direction of the vessels heading. Well it tells me a head but I know for a fact with my eyes that is not the heading. That doesn't seem to bother Ben (then again a lot of thngs don't bother him which is a redeeming quality which I am possessing more of) but this time I eould rather know the heading and I think it worked. ? Well atleast he did go south. Then again I also changed my course until I felt better. The challenge was which way should I head? Phew that all worked out and I didn't have to wake ben. The moon is now starting to change to a peach color. It is quiet out here except for the rigging. Ya know in pirates movie. The davey jones locker one... They had many moon night scenes. The rigging is a silouette the bow sprit is bobbing up and down and you hear the lines moaning in a rythmic fashion. How cool and Erie all at the sametime.
I feel like I am finally out of the way of all the big guys. Ahhh I can and am relaxing. Sailing at night is cooler and has a different feel than during the day. Humm can't describe it. Sorry. I'm just so glad I'm not in clouds rain and too much wind. !!! I will ditto that statement!
Now I can back up. We got up. Got ready to go. It was hot and very humid. Like right now it is wet out here from humidity but not hot. We made it out of the anchorage. It is right next to Langley field. So many F-16 or so flying around two by two in formation. Super loud. There were two huge navy boats a big white boat with the red cross on it. And a handful of freighters. Over load for me. We puttered out of the way and stayed out of the shipping lanes. Oh boy now the moon is turning more to orange as it sets. Looks like I have one more hour with my pal the moon. I'm not tired cuz this is such a new experience just like the movie scenes.
So here is a formula I have been developing. It is called the sleep ratio. If I think the anchor is 50% good. Well then I sleep half the night. If it is 90% good. Then I sleep most of the night. Now if the anchor watch is on I sleep 100% of the night cuz I have had many anchor watches go off when we turn 180 degrees which is good. And 100% of the time I wake up fly out of bed to see whazzz up. But if the anchor watch goes off and I am wide awake then my ratio is low cuz I'm awake and the anchor watch went off for some reason. Now at night sailing if I feel ben will stay awake that adds to my sleepable percentage. If I feel like he wants to sail offf the charts ( we only have a 25 x 25 mile radius of maps. We have gps that goes further but what if the gps fails or the battery runs out. See how much a safety freak I am. And ben is not. I woke up at midnight cuz there was a lot of banging (we had lost our wind so things were flappin) I looked on The map and we were at the furthest corner of the map. Ben yells down as he sees me looking, "I was just going to tack" if I was awake I would have said miles ago, let's tack. I went back to bed but could not sleep even though he was turning around. (the moon is bright orange!!) wowwza!!! Now on my shift which started at 1:20am. I had to start out motoring cuz we used up too much battery on something? Weird. So my first hour and a half I motored away from the four boat congestion. Well to me it was. And now I feel like all is going good at this moment.
Owen likes sailing at night. He was sleeping next to me. Now he is prowling around. How fun! Humans awake in the night. Oh boy!
Today while underway I cooked spam. Tasted like growing up. Spam keeps without refrigeration. I have to admit it was a yummy sandwich.
Wow the moon is orange almost down and a zillion stars are popping out everywhere. It is 4:21am. I have six more miles on thus tack. Today has been the first day of what I thought saili g would be like. Set a course. Watch for boats. Change course if needed. Take turns sailing. We took 2hour shifts during the day and four hour shifts at night. I got to read. Make food. Relax. A few days of this and I'm sure boredom would set in... Well I'd get more crafts done! To night I get to blog a long letter to you all. There is no service out here. But I am on a tack back west to shore so it might happen I get service enough to shoot this out to googlespace.
The moon is no longer lighting up the water and the way. It is getting D A R K!! I can still see two of the four anchorged ships and the beacon light. I can't see where the water ends and the sky starts like I could with the moon bright. Are you all on the edge of your seats with questions of, now what? Well I am. The moon is almost down. Time to play doodle jump or flight control. Wait a light on the dark horizon. Have to pay attention.
It must have been an alien ship cuz it is gone. I have not had any baileys on my shifts.
More later I am so tired ben and I just got back in to anchorage. On the way in we had dolphins playing around us! We even saw them in the waves!!! Also in the waves were sting rays. Oh and the dolphins jumped out of the water like at the zoo!!
Good night zzzzzzzz
Blessings on yours and my sleep!
Sunday, August 2, 2009
Me up the mast. Radar learning and more.
This morning as I was laying in bed looking at the weather report on my iPhone . I said to Ben. Do we have to leaved today? Cuz I don't know the radar yet and the weather has a chance of severe storms. He looked up NOAA the official ocean weather report and read it out loud. Then I pointed out for him to click on the red underlined words "hazard weather outlook". He read them, possible severe weather. Still he was not convinced. I asked why dd he want to go now? Tomorrow seems much better and it looks like a two day nice weather window. He replied he'd rather be out at sea then at an unprotected beach. I replied I'd rather move to a protected anchorage (3 miles away) then risk not knowing how to use the radar. He conceded to my pleading eyes. I could tell he wanted to go. I feel bad but I would be ten times nervous and I want a happy first time overnight sea experience not a thrilling one. We got up and moved the boat to a more protected area. Not the best but better.
Then we read the radar manual together. The first thing it said was do not use radar for the first time at night. Get to know the radar during the day first by sighting objects. He looked at me and laughed and shook his fist as a funny guesture and said Rrrrrrrr. I smile. It is a God thing. So we spent at least two hours playing, sighting, and working the radar. I will practice before bed. Then shove off tomorrow. Phew! I feel like such a "mom" or kill-joy. But I knew I can't sail and read how to do the radar. It takes me a long time to read and concentrate.
Remember yesterday the radar reflector and the line that got loose. Welp today I had a lot of fun. Cuz instead of ben going up the mast. I got to get hoisted up. That was not even scary once! It is way easier for ben to hoist me up than me him. And it is way fun to go up there.! Right now ben is putting up the refector so people will see us at night.
More later after the day is done.
Today was a day of more radar learning. We got severe storms and we got to watch them come in on our radar unit. Fun. I swam under the boat to dislodge the speedometer wheel. I checked the zinc too. Looks good. I cooked hotdogs and ate chips and cucumbers again. I read more of the book I got from oxford ice cream shop. The owner there wrote a book. How could I resist. And last we took a sunset wild dinghy ride through the big waves. Got totally drenched! We got to see Hampton college. Adorable. We walked a bit and then headed back home. Good thing we did not bring Owen. If we would have it would have been his last. Ha ha ha.
I talked in the phone. Yes you all can call me. Ya know. Now time for a snacky and beddie bye.
Sleep tight. Prayers for safety and good weather. Amen friends! Pam
Then we read the radar manual together. The first thing it said was do not use radar for the first time at night. Get to know the radar during the day first by sighting objects. He looked at me and laughed and shook his fist as a funny guesture and said Rrrrrrrr. I smile. It is a God thing. So we spent at least two hours playing, sighting, and working the radar. I will practice before bed. Then shove off tomorrow. Phew! I feel like such a "mom" or kill-joy. But I knew I can't sail and read how to do the radar. It takes me a long time to read and concentrate.
Remember yesterday the radar reflector and the line that got loose. Welp today I had a lot of fun. Cuz instead of ben going up the mast. I got to get hoisted up. That was not even scary once! It is way easier for ben to hoist me up than me him. And it is way fun to go up there.! Right now ben is putting up the refector so people will see us at night.
More later after the day is done.
Today was a day of more radar learning. We got severe storms and we got to watch them come in on our radar unit. Fun. I swam under the boat to dislodge the speedometer wheel. I checked the zinc too. Looks good. I cooked hotdogs and ate chips and cucumbers again. I read more of the book I got from oxford ice cream shop. The owner there wrote a book. How could I resist. And last we took a sunset wild dinghy ride through the big waves. Got totally drenched! We got to see Hampton college. Adorable. We walked a bit and then headed back home. Good thing we did not bring Owen. If we would have it would have been his last. Ha ha ha.
I talked in the phone. Yes you all can call me. Ya know. Now time for a snacky and beddie bye.
Sleep tight. Prayers for safety and good weather. Amen friends! Pam
Saturday, August 1, 2009
Sailing to anchoring. We are real sailors now.
Big sailing day
First remember all the sunscreen challenges and then I lost the last bottle. Well my nose now looks like a clown at a fun house. I bought new stuff yesterday so I hope that will help. Today I sailed at the helm most alllll day. Ben was practicing relaxing and navigating so when we take our night trip we can take turns well. So I'm beat. It was a long day tacking back and forth and I'm pooped! Ben is making supper. Today our big skill learned was.. It was our first time sailing to anchoring. I had the engine on but the motor was in neutral. You know me. Safety first. We are parked outside a beach just at the mouth of the Atlantic. Oh my sister asked about fishing. Here is the secret. I am a lousy fisherman. I went many years and many time with my dad but he forgot to teach me how to fish. I did put the bait on and take off the fish by my self but as to think where when and how. Nope or maybe I didn't listen. That could happen. So I have been fishing when it is light breezes. I don't know ocean fishing and frankly I'm a bit nervous to catch something big. Many nights while in a small river bay I fish but then I think I have too big of a fish hook for river fish. So the secret is out. I can't fish yet but I will get more practice I'm sure.
Today while under way ben decided to put up the radar reflector since we have not yet done that. Silly us then again we have only sailed a bit at sundown. So he decided to use the extra halyard we have to hoist it up there. The only thing is... Im sure he will tell the story about how careful he was. I just looked up as it came flying out of his hand and just before I was thinking why does he need to do that now in12 knot winds? Why not tomorrow. And then poof, gone. Oh well. I guess I hoist him up the mast tomorrow.
Tonight he made supper for me! Have I told you that he is the beat cook I know. I'm not fabricating. I love all the food he makes: chilli, beef stock, oatmeal cookies, stew, BBQ anything, waldorf cake, and his secret ingrediant that is not so secret. Love, extra love in all his creations no matter who he is cooking for.
So tonights amazingness was tuna fish sandwiches with cucumber!! We just got fresh food. So we will eat good for a few more days.
Time for me to go to bed zzzzz
Pam
In all thing acknowledge Him!
First remember all the sunscreen challenges and then I lost the last bottle. Well my nose now looks like a clown at a fun house. I bought new stuff yesterday so I hope that will help. Today I sailed at the helm most alllll day. Ben was practicing relaxing and navigating so when we take our night trip we can take turns well. So I'm beat. It was a long day tacking back and forth and I'm pooped! Ben is making supper. Today our big skill learned was.. It was our first time sailing to anchoring. I had the engine on but the motor was in neutral. You know me. Safety first. We are parked outside a beach just at the mouth of the Atlantic. Oh my sister asked about fishing. Here is the secret. I am a lousy fisherman. I went many years and many time with my dad but he forgot to teach me how to fish. I did put the bait on and take off the fish by my self but as to think where when and how. Nope or maybe I didn't listen. That could happen. So I have been fishing when it is light breezes. I don't know ocean fishing and frankly I'm a bit nervous to catch something big. Many nights while in a small river bay I fish but then I think I have too big of a fish hook for river fish. So the secret is out. I can't fish yet but I will get more practice I'm sure.
Today while under way ben decided to put up the radar reflector since we have not yet done that. Silly us then again we have only sailed a bit at sundown. So he decided to use the extra halyard we have to hoist it up there. The only thing is... Im sure he will tell the story about how careful he was. I just looked up as it came flying out of his hand and just before I was thinking why does he need to do that now in12 knot winds? Why not tomorrow. And then poof, gone. Oh well. I guess I hoist him up the mast tomorrow.
Tonight he made supper for me! Have I told you that he is the beat cook I know. I'm not fabricating. I love all the food he makes: chilli, beef stock, oatmeal cookies, stew, BBQ anything, waldorf cake, and his secret ingrediant that is not so secret. Love, extra love in all his creations no matter who he is cooking for.
So tonights amazingness was tuna fish sandwiches with cucumber!! We just got fresh food. So we will eat good for a few more days.
Time for me to go to bed zzzzz
Pam
In all thing acknowledge Him!
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