Location: 36º17.27’N 35º42’W
Today, our watch team was woken up at 12 am for our 12-4. Since we are on day 14 of passage, our fresh fruit supply has long been depleted, so we have moved on to midnight snacks of canned fruit, ramen, and cereal. We noticed on the chart plotter that there were big red circles labeled Keep Out, which Meg explained marked some seamounts south of the Azores. During the last hour of watch while Lizzy and I were on bow watch, the rest of watch team 2 schemed up another bilge scare, with Jack hiding in the head bilge again, Sadie in the galley bilge, and Avery hiding in all of the coats hanging on the wall. Mina and Greyson came down to do a boat check, and we learned that the head bilge is going unchecked (oh no). We went to bed soon after. Once we all woke up, our chefs Dylan, Mina, and Ella had prepared some gnocchi and a red sauce, which was pretty good.
We went down to do seamanship, which was more testing, and leadership, where we got a bit of a brain break and watched part of a movie. We also got our essays handed back, and Im pretty sure everyone passed!
After class, all hands were called to raise the main sail and the jib. Anticipating over 30 kts of consistent wind tonight, we put in two reefs in the main sail. After all the sail handling was over, Henry, Rooke, and Alexis talked about what sailing and diving certs they wanted to get, while everyone headed down to the salon to get out of the rain.
During dinner, which was beef tacos with rice and beans, Emma and Greyson taught Brig some Spanish.
360 NM left on the trip! Hort, here we come!