Race 6 - Day 14
Crew Diary - Top and bottom of Leg 5
05 February
Author – Andres Naranjo
Top
Equator crossing featuring Neptuna: We crossed the Equator in style, doled out doses of nasty sludge for the pollywogs, and had a laugh as they became shellbacks. All delivered by the very first Queen Neptuna. Oh yeah, we captured it in an epic selfie.
Punta del Este Pool Party: Our own circus act; once you have a small kiddie pool, the immediate question is how many adults can we fit in it?
Punta del Este Dance Party: You take happy hour, add some Reggaeton hits, and put the Latin people on the boat to get the dancing going and voila; you have yourself a small dance party. Qingdao would’ve been on the horizon looking out (or looking down with their drone) at us wondering what was going on…
More starry nights: The Northern Hemisphere giving the Southern one a run for its money. The milky way stretches as far as the eyes can see, and some nights a shooting star/meteor will light up the atmosphere like the sky is providing a giant flash for a perfect picture.
Apples and Oranges: Kindergarten teachers say they don’t go together, but they are the go to snack on the boat. Still fresh, and always refreshing…can’t have enough fresh fruit.
Bottom
Compound Heat: I love a good mother duty day; but cooking a meal on three stoves, and cooking bread at the same time, while it is 35 degrees in 100% humidity… lets just say that is too much compound heat.
The Community Sail Locker: Who doesn’t love a good hostel-like community sleeping area? Well, let's just say there are occupancy thresholds that have been broken. I’ve seen more humans than sails sleeping in the sail locker in order to find some respite from the heat.
German Bread mix: So we tried to break the rules, as we tried switching from UK bread mix to a newly found and bought German bread mix. The result? Think the movie ‘flubber’ meets alien invasion… Oh yeah, and an extra two hours of washing and cleaning.
Bed Fans with poor quality: Can someone at the manufacturing site where fans are made please solder a micro-USB port properly? About half our fans are broken because the little bugger ports break when plugging them in