Saturday 14th April – An almost ‘chunder’ful day

This morning we woke ourselves up, depending on our own alarms. Everyone, especially Annie was in a better mood this morning than yesterday as we had got used to the early wake up. We got up to a warm bowl of porridge which Mollie and Lottie had prepared for the crew. Shortly after, we had set sail by 9.05 am and as the wind had picked up we were sailing instead of using the engine to move the boat.

The increase in wind meant that we got to experience sailing at a reasonable speed, this allowed us to learn more about the sails and lines necessary to run the vessel. As the waves built up we found that we were leaning starboard and rocking around quite a bit.

Madison and Annie went down to the galley to attempt to cook lunch, spinach, chickpeas and couscous. However, this was very difficult as the boat was at an 80° angle to the water and they were thrown from both sides of the galley. Not surprisingly, Madison and Annie made the majority of the meal but had to go above deck to avoid throwing up in the food. Fortunately, neither of them were physically sick but took a while to recover on the deck, while some other crew members did their washing up. Everyone’s mood improved as the wind picked up and there were jobs for us too do on deck as we did a lot of tacks and gybes.

After Madison and Annie had recovered they went down to the galley, finished cleaning up their mess and then whipped up a surprise batch of cookies for the crew, which were delicious! Shortly after Rehana and Mollie began cooking pasta bolognaise for dinner.

After eating dinner we settled down and went through navigation and then had a game of Articulate to round the day off nicely.

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