Day 13 - Eating our way across the Atlantic

Date: June 16, 2007
Location: s/v Liberty closing the Azores
Position: 37 23.651 N 034 48.552 W

The opportunity to crew on Liberty fell into our laps and we are glad we took it. The good company and easy atmosphere, the private en suite cabin, and the opportunity to learn a lot from some experienced cruisers who are eager to share their knowledge about all facets of cruising have all contributed to making our innaugural ocean passage pleasant and educational.

But the food.... oh my.

What can we say? On a passage, when the horizon looks much the same from one day to the next, and watches tend to run together, one tends to look forward to mealtime with the rest of the crew to provide a break in the day. It's generally "catch-as-catch-can" for breakfast but we all usually eat lunch and dinner together in the cockpit.

Lunch is often a salad, sandwiches or wraps, or some delicious creation made out of leftovers.
Dinner is always delicious. We have mainly eaten Carter's pre-prepared meals - chili, ham, chicken and peas, piccadillo (a yummy concoction of meat, spices, peppers & raisins), meat loaf.
When it's not too rolly, she'll cook something a bit more daring such as sauteed wahoo, fish salad, or her scrumptious wahoo stew.

We are quickly closing in on Flores, the Westernmost island of the Azores and our landfall. Today the wind gods are with us allowing us to beat a straight path to the island. Barring unforeseen wind shifts we may arrive tomorrow.

Mark gets the wildlife prize for the day: several pods of dolphin and a big turtle. Julie got to pilot through her first squall and wins the coveted floating carpet scrap sighting prize.

Mark & Julies/v Rachel