| Log Entry - Saturday, Jan 14, 2006 |
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Awaiting the Storm
It was a low key day as I awaited the storm, which is due tonight and Sunday. I took a detailed inventory of the food on hand and sorted it into categories and meals. I made single meals out of cans of meat, vegetables, and fruit and put them in individual plastic bags so that when it comes time to cook a meal all we have to do is take one bag, open the cans, heat/cook, and serve. We will buy fresh food for the first few days, but will resort to canned meals for later days. We have enough pasta and rice on hand to open a combination Italian/Chinese restaurant, so I guess we can always overdose on carbs for the next week. Anyone on an Aitkens or South Beach diet would mutiny at the site of all those carbs. To minimize refrigeration, we use long life milk and soya milk.
I made two runs to the supermarket on the scooter. I can only hold two big bags of groceries per trip. I got dumped on during the second trip. Soggy paper bags transported by dinghy to the mother ship are not the ideal transport method. I want to get most of the shopping done before the rest of the crew arrives so we grab our weather when it opens. That's sailor talk for leaving between storms. The rest of the day was spent reading the local newspaper and The Sea Wolf.
I have to run the engine about an hour a day to charge the batteries and replenish the 48 amp hours I have been using per day. For a sixteen hour day, that works out to three amps per hour, pretty stingy, hey.
Today's photo shows me in a state of euphoria at the nav station working away on these log entries. Next week I hope to play a little and get some photos of the island.
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