Sailing Micronesia 2018: March 4, 2018

March 4, 2018

It is Sunday today and there’s a lot of work to be done, but not wanting to be disrespectful, we work inside in the salon/galley.

Pete has plenty to do and keeps busy sewing the soles of my water sandals, untangling the spinnakers with patching and sewing their socks along with a few other things that need to be done. It’s been a while since I’ve done a ‘baking’ day and we’re down to our last slice of bread. It takes most of the day and dishes to make a loaf of buckwheat with seeds bread; oatmeal, peanut butter and mango cookies; freeze dried blueberry, oatmeal, sunflower seed mini loaves; vegetable dip, salsa, hummus and a spread with cream cheese and cooked wahoo. It is so hot and humid and with the oven going, even though I started early in the morning, I’m soon sweating like crazy. To the point where I’m looking forward to washing the dishes, just so my body can have some part feel cool, if only my hands. I’m dying to jump in, but we were warned not to at high tide as the sewage station is at the mouth of the harbor.

It is well into the afternoon, when I finish the cooking and we have a feast with so many choices. The last two fresh cucumbers – we haven’t been able to find more of them – are sliced to go with the dip and hummus and we have some stale bags of chips for the salsa. Add a cup – no glasses on board - or two of Pete’s homebrewed beer and it’s a perfect meal.

On to my next project, I spend the rest of the day working on editing the movies Pete took of the dives which he compiled into one video, but still much to large to upload and I was able to download a video editor before we left Majuro, so was excited to check it out and see what I could come up with. After many hours, mistakes and redoes trying to figure out the program, finally a video that was good enough for me, so I could let it go and try to upload it later when I did the next blog entries.

It’s been a long time since we’ve had beef, so Pete hooked up the BBQ grill in the cockpit and I crossed my fingers hoping the marinate had done it’s work and the ‘steaks’ if you can call them that, would be edible. After our earlier feast, we decide on just a salad with what little fixings we have left, namely lettuce, red cabbage, carrot and pickled pepperoncini. Even in the dark the steaks turned out to be mostly medium rare and though a bit tough, were a pleasant surprise and a real treat.

Still hot, with a full belly and quite tired; a lukewarm shower was perfect before heading to bed.

Well, no pictures from today and for some reason could not add these to yesterday's post, so more pictures from yesterday's dive.