Towel bath and laugh
The last 24 hours has seen mainly good rowing conditions with the right wind strength in the right direction and with not too many waves to disrupt our rowing rytham, the disadvantage of not having strong winds and big swell is that we do not travel quite as far in 24 hrs but the rest has beeen very welcome.
Si and Al are still rowing partners as am Marin and I, unfortunatly we have been laughing and chatting too loudly for the other two to sleep and so we keep getting reminders to keep quiet at the start of our night shifts. Looking back over the past weeks prepairing the boat and now being on our 11th day at sea I (and i think it is true for each of the others as well) have laughed until i cried each and every day! This is such an amazing experience only intensified by the sharing with such wonderful people.
Today I had my second towel bath on deck of the boat and am lovely and clean now. This process takes quite a bit of effort. I stand on the back deck over a bucket, wash all the salt off with a wet towl then lauther up with shower gel, then rince off with fresh water towl again. In the bucket below are my shorts and t shirt i have been wearing so as these can be washed and hung up to dry. This is very invigerating but i am not sure Si and Al will every get over the experence as this all happns directly in front of them while they are rowing!
We are all starting to eat better now even though the food is not great, breakfast however this morning was quite enjoyable (amazing how hunger affects your taste buds!)
The forcast looks great for the next few days so heres hoping to get some good miles under our belts. Thank you to all the people sending us messages on the blog and the emails from Family and friends.
Steve and the Tusmobile team
