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Topic: Meals
By Alex on January 16, 2005, at 1546 UTC
Topic(s): Birds, Meals 1546hrs 16 Jan 2005. (Sydney Time) We are in fog and heavy rain with distant thunder. Sux knots. Nav lights on and someone poking a head up every few minutes to check for fishos and errant sheep in wetsuits. 140 miles to Stewart I. P has just made breakfast – for the foodies, last night’s pasta salad stir fried with egg, bacon and tabasco and a draught from the home brew cellar to help it settle. Cordon Berri 5 starvarious “recipes”. … Continue reading
By Peter on January 31, 2005, at 0013 UTC
Topic(s): Meals 0013hrs 31 Jan 2005 SYD time 49’36”S 179’13”E Map Ref 37
On board cuisine
Since leaving Dunedin, the weather has been very kind to us. Though not enough wind at times, it has allowed us to eat well. The day often starts with a shared bottle of Dr CoopersCoopers … Continue reading
By Peter on February 11, 2005, at 1256 UTC
Topic(s): Meals 1256hrs 11 Feb 2005 UTC 45’27”S 144’44”W Map Ref 58 3066nm
Pete: Hello out there – we have been away from hobart for a month now – perhaps time to reflect. All is going well, progress is a little slow as we sawtooth our way across the longitudes moving between … Continue reading
By Alex on February 25, 2005, at 1345 UTC
Topic(s): Meals, Sunset 1345hrs 25 Feb 2005 UTC 51’46”S 111’19”W Map Ref 80
It’s been a pink and yellow day. We opened a tin of beetroot for lunch and Pete cooked some rice and stirred in the beetroot, a can of white beans, the last sliver of Dunedin spanish onion, a tin … Continue reading
By Peter on February 28, 2005, at 2330 UTC
Topic(s): Cooking, Meals 2330hrs 28 Feb 2005 UTC 53’59”S 101’51”W Map Ref 89
Pete: Hello to all out there not residing in washing machines.
Yesterday we were sitting between two lows without much wind. Outside, it was raining and bloody cold. Ales was hand steering to keep the boat moving, using the tiller … Continue reading
By Alex on March 9, 2005, at 0815 UTC
Topic(s): Dressing, Meals, Party gear 0815hrs 09 Mar 2005 UTC 55’26”S 075’59”W Map Ref 109
I think it is easing and abating. The wind has backed as expected, although to the SW instead of W and is now steady at about 40 kt. No more gustsShort increases in wind speed – or people who signed … Continue reading
1315hrs 10 Mar 2005 UTC 55’49”S 072’30”W Map Ref 113
Daylight, sailing again, 7.5 knots directly towards the Horn. fingers, toes, ears, eyelashes and bootferals all firmly crossed. Pete has a long update, so I’ll jump – see yez. Nearest bit ofChile now about 60 miles away. Woo0ohooo.
Pete: Hello … Continue reading
By Alex on March 28, 2005, at 2000 UTC
Topic(s): Birds, Meals 2000hrs 28 Mar 2005 UTC Map Ref 131
After a traditional Berri breakfast of a bacon sandoAustralian sandwich, tabasco and a talk with the DoctorGuinness,(yeah, I know I’m absteeming but nothing brown can possibly be alcoholic or fattening so the DoctorGuinness and chocolate are ok. I read it in New … Continue reading
By Alex on April 10, 2005, at 0430 UTC
Topic(s): Dog bowls, Food, Meals 0430hrs 10 Apr 2005 UTC Map Ref 160
Once again in good weather – balmy and warm, water 24 degrees. 20 – 25 knots from the east and looks ok for a day or two more. Fingers crossed. Berri now further north than she has ever been with me – … Continue reading
By Alex on May 6, 2005, at 0445 UTC
Topic(s): Meals, Shipping, Things that worked, Ventilation, Watches 0445hrs 06 May 2005 UTC Map Ref 203
This will be a bit of a Q&A session. Writing it at night with Pete on watch. Not as easy to write long emails on this side of the Wall because of the shipping. On the other side, I could sit … Continue reading
By Alex on May 13, 2005, at 1500 UTC
Topic(s): Ghosts, Liferaft, Meals 1500hrs 13 May 2005 UTC 18’00”N 035’21”W Map Ref 216 4960nm (2414nm to Falmouth)
Breakfast – Friday 13 May – the usual cardboard muesli activated by our composted dried fruit but this time washed down – no, washed has too much attitude – stroked down perhaps? by a snort … Continue reading
By Alex on August 21, 2005, at 0515 UTC
Topic(s): Clouds, Meals, Sunrise 0515hrs 21 Aug 2005 UTC 48’49”N 006’47”W Ref 302
The first of many dawns, from cherry pink to fiery gold to silver grey and then the clouds to the west change from brooding shadows to snowy peaks that turn pink as the rising sun catches them… But anyone who sees … Continue reading
By Alex on August 21, 2005, at 1800 UTC
Topic(s): Books, Meals, Shipping 1800hrs 21 Aug 2005 UTC 47’59”N 007’15”W Ref 304
Just been overtaken by a big grey bulk carrier called Te Ho – couldn’t reads the port of registration but looked like Taipei – if that’s a port. No one visible anywhere on deck or on the bridge – probably watching … Continue reading
By Alex on September 4, 2005, at 0900 UTC
Topic(s): Bread making, Meals 0900hrs 04 Sep 2005 UTC 24’29”N 023’22”W Ref 329 DB: 130,11601 (GPS 137) so another goodish day. Really soupy haze – sun came up white, first sighting about an hour after sunrise, through the murk. Looks like convergence zoneInter Tropical Convergence Zone, also known as The Doldrums conditions but we’re not there yet. Looking at the gribWeather files.
Graphics in Binary file: GRIB files associate a specific weather datum (eg wind velocity or atmospheric pressure) with a geographic position. Because the resulting file is a collection of these points they are extremely small and so ideal over slow links such as sailmail., there’s a low forming over the Cape Verdes about 500 miles ahead – this is where the hurricanes are born, as big thunderstorms, which then set off west across the Atlantic and get bigger. … Continue reading
By Alex on September 19, 2005, at 2145 UTC
Topic(s): Meals 2145hrs 19 Sep 2005 UTC 00’30”N 026’11”W Ref 375
Some hours later – back on watch again, after what will have been the last Northern Hemisphere G&TGin and Tonic and the Last Supper (rice, corn, bacon, mungiesBeans sprouted on board if it’s warm enough) and I’m definitely sad – this … Continue reading
We had our normal Breakfast Short ConsultationA regular engagement with alcohol. One might say this whole epic is a Consultation with a bit of a sail round it. See also Conservation Mode; Linear and Parallel Methods of Consultation today, bulk billed, of course, with the medico from Dublin and then we decided that the crossing should be appropriately celebrated with a southern hemisphere based medicinal potion so – half and half Dr Bundy and ASDA orange squash was the go. NoiceAlexism for quite a lot of things which taste good or are going especially well. Very NoiceAlexism for quite a lot of things which taste good or are going especially well – thanks Dave and RANSARoyal Australian Navy Sailing Association; a sailing club located in Sydney, Australia.. This could become habit forming. … Continue reading
By Alex and Peter on September 21, 2005, at 1015 UTC
Topic(s): Belmore school, Meals, Navigation, Pirates, Sharks, Stars DB 125, 9,907 (GPS 135). Truckin’ along reasonably well, touch wood, hold me breff till me eyes pop and waltzing matilda. I think we have hooked into the Brazil current too, which is nice. A bit short of sailmailSailmail is the system that Berrimilla uses for email communication. It is a non-profit association of yacht owners operating a network of private coast stations in the maritime Mobile Radio Service. connection time because of all the BelmoreSydney School corresponding with Berri SouthSydney School corresponding with Berri answers, so this will be short. … Continue reading
By Alex on October 4, 2005, at 2315 UTC
Topic(s): Meals, Stars 02315rs 04 Oct 2005 UTC 28’27”S 022’19”W Ref 415 Where do I start? How do I keep this going for another 65 days? First – today had that element of magic that blasts away the awfulness of the last couple of weeks with radiance and warmth – bright, dampish sunshine, the old barge a clothes horse for every mouldy sock and festering shirt, for wet weather gear and the boot feralsInteresting biological colonies that grow and fester in seaboots. There are left foot ferals and right foot ferals and occasionally they get to cross breed and create fierce hybrids.Interesting biological colonies that grow and fester in seaboots. There are left foot feralsInteresting biological colonies that grow and fester in seaboots. There are left foot ferals and right foot ferals and occasionally they get to cross breed and create fierce hybrids. and right foot feralsInteresting biological colonies that grow and fester in seaboots. There are left foot ferals and right foot ferals and occasionally they get to cross breed and create fierce hybrids. and occasionally they get to cross breed and create fierce hybrids., for, indeed, those delicate parts of the anatomy that tend themselves to fester when unable to hang out – as it were. … Continue reading
By Alex on October 8, 2005, at 0900 UTC
Topic(s): Barnacles, Birds, Knots, Meals, Petrels 0900hrs 08 Oct 2005 UTC 32’36”S 015’53”W Ref 423
DB: 114, 7739 gps 132 (all over the ocean yesterday!) 49/61
A PS to my last about rolling hitches. If you haven’t got a convenient halyard winch and your two lee winches are loaded and tensioned, do not despair. Leave the … Continue reading
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