Location: Underway to Bonaire
What’s up, guys? Jonas Jarecki here, back with another YouTube Challenge Video! Nah, just playing, no YouTube on Argo because we’re underway to Bonaire. We left Dominica this morning at some time. I don’t know when because the Watch Team One got us underway. That meant that everyone else got to sleep in, so that’s exactly what I did. I slept till drum roll please 7 am. How is it that when I finally have the opportunity to sleep in, I can’t sleep? That is so messed up. I digress (I will be saying “I digress” a lot in this, despite not being entirely sure how it is meant to be used). So, I digress, when I came up on deck, I got to watch Shane and Watch Team One put up the Main Stay Sail, and the Forward Stay Sail. It was kinda goated (another term I will be using a lot) because I got a sort of sneak preview for what we learned in Shane’s class later. As everyone started to wake up, Shane and Aiden informed us that we were allowed to fish, so Cason and I dropped our lines off the Stern. We sat out there for a good chunk of the day, for two different Watch Team rotations. It was goated. Honestly, I probably shouldn’t be writing this blog cause most of what I was focused on today was my line catching a whole lot of nothing. Yet, I digress, for lunch, Will made a divine Teriyaki Chicken with Rice meal, I even heard some describing it as “goated.” After lunch we had Shanes class, we have a quizz coming up in which we will need to know every line and standing rigging on the boat, and what it does. So we did a walk-through to help try to get it down, and I took more notes in that one hour class than I have in my five semesters of college. But, I digress, after Shane’s class, we had Meg’s class down in the Galley. It was really hot, so Meg didn’t keep us super long. I would try to tell you what we learned, but I am still a little confused, so I will have to consult my notes. After that, I went back to the cockpit for my watch. It was only a two-hour watch for us, however, because Rachel and Charlie had done the first two while we were in class. I dropped my line again. About an hour in, we saw a massive Tuna jumping out of the water on the Starboard side, so I got ready for the catch of my lifetime (I didnt even get a bite). We had watch up until dinner, when Will made another absolute banger of a meal, Coconut Curry with Rice. I think that would be my one piece of advice to anyone debating doing a Seamester voyage: “If you don’t like rice, it’s not for you.” Otherwise, Seamester, just like today, is Goated.
Sincerely,
Jonas Jarecki – Keeper of Keys