Location: Gibraltar
7:30- BREAKFAST (potatoes and scrambled eggs) 8:15- OCE class 9:30- MTE class 12:00- LUNCH (sandwiches) FREE TIME 6:30 DINNER (chili) MORE FREE TIME 11:00Curfew These past couple of days, the SEAmester crew have been quite spoiled: hot showers, free internet, fresh laundry, a new shiny white mainsail and jib, and plentiful Gibraltar shore time. What more could we want?
HIGHLIGHTS of the day: – little propane leak on deck cut breakfast short – tides and currents in MTE class. Did you know the farther away from the equator you get, the greater a tide varies? – bending (installing) the new jib sail – raising Leah to the top of the mainmast (over 100 ft) – PROVISIONING (200 boxes of cereal!!!) How can it all fit? – meeting about adjusting to passage life (from now on, we will be spending less time in port and more time at sea) – a small group hiked the Rock of Gibraltar – there were monkeys. One student claims while trying to get the monkey to drink from his water bottle, it lightly bit his arm. DON’T WORRY! The skin wasn’t broken. – One crewmember (after dinner) went out and bought himself the first steak he’d had in four weeks. He said it was medium-rare, juicy, tendered, and seared. – NIGHT BOWLING!