Race 4 - Day 11
Skipper Report
13 December
There are too many computers!! Four screens!!! I mean, where am I?? Wall street?? What happened to escaping office life, not that I ever had one to go sailing? We have a mate but seriously, where is my secretary? Without a printed list there is no order!! People need a printed list, this requires a printer! What if the list gets wet? Ah, hold on a minute I'll just switch the laminator on!! A laminator I hear you say!! Next there will be a photocopier and water machine!! There goes the bagel guy!!
I think if I worked in an office I would spend most of my time by the water machine or the photocopier or even just hanging out with the bagel guy!! Anyway, I think you get the gist!
I'm just not built for this level of admin. With computers and monitors come cables. No one knows how to or where to store a cable so you end up with what becomes a cable box or in our case an unused rice cooker weighing in at 10kg cable holder. Once you get to your cable box/rice cooker you must then sift through a plethora of cables in order to find the right one. Guess what?! The right one isn't there!
I now have an unused rice cooker and an un-operational printer weighing in at a total of 15kg. I no longer need the laptop we had for typing things up on to print because we can't print so just add another 3kg to all of that useful weight and dump it on the high side because we are a competitive bunch.
Talking of all things technical, we are required before arriving in Sydney to conduct a radio check over HF radio. This has been another problematic task. I have had to call the Marine rescue coastal radio station to show them our radio is fully operational. I'm not sure if I’m talking to Doris or Morris but I imagine them to be sat in a conservatory in comfy wing back chairs with HF set in hand. Unfortunately, this has yet to be a success after three trials now so fourth time lucky.
It is finally windy again! The sun is shining and the crew are on top form!
Plans to be as efficient as possible with ongoing maintenance and repairs are underway and the moto work smart not hard is being banded around the boat!! Nick Davies in the galley today does not agree with this as he is definitely working hard and the angle of the boat is not allowing him to work smart!! The fried breakie was very good, though.
The drag race is on to the heads
Let Peace be the journey
Andy and the GREAT Britain Team