Our passage days are occupied by three main activities: sailing, sleeping, and eating. The trades have filled in so the sailing is steady, the sleeping happens in a good rhythm, and the eating is way better than some might imagine.
Oso is lucky to have a talented and committed CCO (Chief Culinary Officer) onboard, a job title that is joined with sail trimmer, navigator, weather forecaster, among others. The result is that dining during passage is actually not that different from the way we eat while in port. Probably the meals are a little simpler, and the plates are held with one hand lest they slide across the cockpit when a wave rolls the boat, but we eat very well on passage.
Of course, all that takes time and dedication. There are eggs to rotate in their crates every couple of days, there is the inspecting and culling of fresh fruit and vegetables (of which there is still plenty, more than two weeks into the trip), and there’s the planning and preparation of the meals themselves.
Cheers to the CCO!
All’s well aboard.
Day Fifteen (+1 additional hour for a clock change)
15 30.7S 111 21.7W
179nm
