Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Magic?

Brian was cooking an egg casserole yesterday and noticed that we never seem to run out of ham. Every time he cooks, he tries to use it up and just when he thinks it is all gone, another bag appears in the fridge. There is no other place to store ham so it is all in the same fridge he is using so what is the deal? This morning I noticed it. We are two weeks into this trip and, lemme check...yep, there is one bag of spiral cut ham in the fridge. We have had ham in every thing and on anything. Wanna crew on Appa? Better like ham!
I couldn't read the sign at the Costco in Cabo San Lucas when I bought the ham. Maybe it said "Magic Never Ending Delicious Ham!" Too bad we didn't buy the Magic Rum!
So yesterday we had a huge egg casserole. We have lots of eggs left, not sure if they are magic however. Very tasty. As Brian was making this monster sized dish, Michael was epoxying some decorative knot work, then BANG! FISH ON!! Brian promptly spilled some of the egg into the fridge and storage bins after a particular nasty bastard of a wave knocked us sideways. I scrambled up and Amie was reeling in a nice size Mahi Mahi. Michael dispatched that fish and was almost done filleting when we caught another one! Woo Hoo! One more mahi mahi won't be eating any more flying fish. Their bellies were full of tiny flying fish.
So today we are having, wait for it.....deep fried fish with french fries!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! With, potentially, a side of second and possibly third degree burns. No ham!!!!
Weather is the same. Cloudy with sunbreaks and wind out of the East with a hint of north in it running about 15 knots with gusts to 20. Some lulls are in there also.
Our daily mileage total yesterday was 166 miles. A little off pace but still respectable. We started to reef the jib at night. The jib is on the spinnaker pole and it can be vexing to reduce sail area, especially at night. The only time you reef really is in big winds so at night, in big winds, is not the time to reef. You reef before hand. Which we did. It was good. We were safe. And slower.
Sleep was hard to come by last night. Really windy for a bit with the boat just streaking west. Then a touch of light winds, light enough that when a wave rolled you, the sails would collapse and bang open again. Causing the whole boat to shudder.
We back under full sail now though and once again, Appa is making good time.
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