Last night with our friends

Photo from Stina's blog.

Our friends ordered Barracuda for dinner...

and here it is.... The fisherman is back in business!

In Marigot Bay

Hello world! Finally Internet connection again. Our satellite unit crashed on the 21st day and I've been dying to give you all an update or two. Anyway, we arrived as I shortly mentioned in the last post (the Blackberry couldn't post anything else than a title - facebook has served us good at least...) in Barbados yesterday and after picking up our friends we sailed over to St Lucia and Marigot Bay. It is beautiful here and we are enjoying a wonderful vacation now and for the rest of the weekend. It is very interesting that so many of you thought that we've been fighting or killed each other or something but the truth is that we fought much less than anywhere else during this crossing, simply because there wasn't much to fight about, no stress, no deadlines and so on... The last five days of the crossing was a bit of a roller-coaster in other ways though. 20 foot seas, constant wind never less than 25 knots and gusts up to 46 knots. Insane ride. Not at all like we expected the Atlantic crossing, yet it feels amazing to have it done. 

Will let you know all about it later on though, now more rum punch please! /T

Atlantic crossing - day 25 - Arrived in Barbados

Atlantic crossing - day 20

Miles left: 779.

Must say that we're quite bored and restless here right now. We're dreaming of our new existence in the Caribbean and can't wait to arrive to begin our new life over there. This rolling and bouncing and surfing and the constant change of blue and grey tones around your world can't be good for no humans brain for an extended period of time and it is remarkable how much things from ones past episodes of life comes knocking on the door when cut off from the civilization like this. This journey has definitely been better and more fulfilling than any therapy session in the world, for both of us. Jesus.

5 more days to go. /Taru

Dish of the week

It has been quite a busy year for me, therefore the lack of writings from my part. They are quite a high maintenance both my woman and the boat and most of these last fifteen months has meant to make these two women of my life happy and ready for this journey we have now embarked on. Finally I can see a little bit of relief on both the maintenance and stress and we all look forward to get some well deserved vacation once we get to the Caribbean.

I want to share with you my toerail to toerail rolling dish even though I am sure most of you sailors already are familiar with it. Some days at sea are just not meant for gourmet cookings as the 15 foot following seas and strong winds doesn't allow you to much more than boiling pasta opening a can ... you got the picture. This is how you do it.

Boil pasta, panfry one can of corned beef, add fried and dry onions, mix all together and enjoy. This is very good. If you ask Taru she maybe will say that the smell and consistence of corned beef reminds her of the smell and consistence of cat food coming from cans with obscure names like "pussy" or "mjau" but who said life on sea always should be easy? Bon Appétit. 

Alex

Atlantic Crossing - Day 17

We have seen life! There are actually other life existing on this ocean than only flying fish! Hallelujah.

Today's attraction was definitely this tanker. On the AIS we got informed that it was going towards Houston, Texas but as far as we could understand it was heading towards East so it is clear that there must be more people than we who are confused here on the sea. 

While Alex could help me sort out most of my scientific questions which I had the other night, he still cannot give me a clear answer on how many flying fishes will be enough for one meal for two people. This I will try to figure out tonight. /T