Location: Underway to Mauritius
Hello blog readers, Another 19 days, another blessing as I am once again skipper. Today was a pretty uneventful day, which is good because no news is good news on the sea. Well, actually, our oven is broken. For those who have been keeping up with the blog, apparently, yesterday, when we lost our dinner due to a large swell, a wave got through one of our hatches and onto the oven. This means we wont have bread or cake or pastries until we manage to fix it. So it goes! Today, I had the 8 am-noon watch in the morning, which means I allegedly missed a whale that was 5 feet away from our boat! Oh well, someday my whale will come. It was, however, significantly dryer and hotter than the 8 pm to midnight watch where a persistent squall hit us. Passage life has been long; I havent seen signs of civilization in a hot second. Although the navigation ETA says well get to Mauritius in two weeks or so, I personally believe well get there by sunrise tomorrow. I can practically taste the Mauritian waters. Anywayssss, I had ramen and Powerade (not sponsored) for breakfast which was really good. I dont think I quite appreciated instant ramen until I started this passage, so thats something Im grateful for. After lunch, we had to flake the main sail in order to put in the third reef, now our main sail is very demure and cutesy and small as Gabe says. We had marine biology and leadership class today as well. In leadership, we did a fun activity with black and white photographs where we got to know each other a little better. Dinner was phenomenal, and my squeeze question is something I like to use a lot: If you could dispense one condiment from your belly button, what condiment would it be and why? Answers ranged from hot sauce (ouch) to furikake (also ouch?) As some of you may know, I accidentally logged out of Spotify in Cocos, so I am doing this passage with no music whatsoever. In order to remedy this, Ive been writing passage songs to the tune of Christmas songs. Hopefully, Ill have a whole album by the end of this trip and maybe get a record label or whatever. Heres one I worked on today: (To the tune of All I Want for Christmas) I~ dont want a lot for passage There is just one thing I need (and I~) Dont care about my foulie Over all these waves I see I just want to see it there More than we could ever bare Make my wish come trueeee~~~ All I want for passage, is land (cue piano music) Hope yall enjoyed this blog, I will be back again in 19 days with hopefully more content. What day of passage is this? Who knows? -Sincerely Yours, Best Love, Warm Wishes, Toodle-doo, Philip W. Shoutout to all my fellow outdoor guides in UCSD Outback! Miss yall