Race 7 - Day 10
Crew Diary - You know you’ve been on the boat too long when…
04 March

Dressing for dinner means turning up in your underwear

Wearing the same underwear for a week (or so) is OK (ish)

The dark nail polish, having chipped off revealed nails almost as dark but with dirt

You do an impromptu ‘home’ pedicure before presenting your feet to the nice lady for a pedicure

Your nails have gone soft from being wet all the time

Your hair, once thought to be fairly straight, turns out to be really quite curly

You inhale rather than eat your food in order to get on deck on time

The nice lady at the beauty place takes much longer than you’d normally expect for the same service at home

Hairy legs are ‘de rigueur’ (but only whilst actually on the boat)

Sleeping in your work clothes is OK

Waking up and going back to work in the same clothes is also OK

Brushing your teeth in your bunk without the benefit of water or a sink to spit in is accepted practice

Throwing a glass of water, inside, at a crew member because if they squeal, they’re lying about the number of cookies they’ve eaten is not frowned upon. This would also apply to Austrian chocolate cake consumption

Commenting on the number of pumps someone needed to flush away their offering to the toilet gods is allowed

Wearing white clothes is idiotic. Fact

Expecting white clothes to stay white. Well...

Some of your personal standards of tidiness may have slipped but coffee grounds in the sink are still a no no!

Your belt needs more holes punched in it

You actually need to use your belt

You no longer say “’excuse fingers” when handing over food

The five second rule has become, “I’ll get that in a minute”

Actively sniffing fellow crew members when they’ve had a shower and smell clean is encouraged

Freshly showered crew members offer themselves up for being sniffed