Location: Civitavecchia, Italy
7:10- Wake up call 7:30- Breakfast 8:00- 9:00- Boat prep 12:00- Lunch 12:00- 4:00- Patiently waiting for water maker part to arrive from Italian FedEx 6:30- Dinner 7:00- Clean up and start of watches
Wake-ups started at 7:10 so everyone could eat breakfast in the cool, early Italian air. We started boat prep after breakfast cleanup, which consisted of getting sail covers removed, sheets run, everything 40/ 40, and engine checks. Argo waited patiently for a watermaker part to arrive from the lackadaisical Italian FedEx that eventually arrived about eight hours late. Gotta love Italians and how much they try to be on time. We had a short amount of free time to get last-minute things for our passage to Palma, such as an extra few bottles of Coca-Cola or more fishing lines. We finally departed with everything ready at about 4:00. Passing through a straight of giant cruise liners, we opened up to the Tyrrhenian Sea and forward to Palma. A simple dinner and our three-hour watch shifts commenced into the moonlit night.