Day 53, evening.
6.30 pm and writing earlier than usual.
I only rowed for 1/2 hour this morning but had to give up. Not only breeze from ESE, but swell from different directions making Fox II jerk and roll.
Also the fog thickened and the E wind made the temperature drop further.
I had a list of jobs and got them done: fastened the foot strap better with extra screws. Made a support for the Katadyn water maker hose so I cannot lose it where it comes inside from the cockpit by cutting out a strip of aluminum, bending it and drilling holes. Spacer behind. Nice little bracket, if I may say so myself!
Got the life-raft off the two storage areas M1 and M2 (central and nearest the cabin). Counted up the gas and found 21 full, 9 empty, nr 10 is in use. Eggs in M2 had suffered in one of the knockdowns, probabely, so 3 are broken, two remaining in the box, the other has fallen to the bottom of that hold and smells not good!
I have to remove the foot board to get down to the bottom, it will have to wait. There will be other days, unfortunately, when SA will be out and maybe it is warmer than here! (Newfoundlanders must be a hardy lot!)
In P5 up at the bow Diana has placed a lot if extras, in fact so much it extends my provisions by many days. Tins of sardines, mackerel, rye bread, raisins, tubes of caviar, peanut butter, rice. The eggs are also extra, I have 38 left. Two I fried for lunch and had with half a tin of kippers (smoked herring) in oil from Bornholm.
I did not like the kippers they served at breakfast in Wolfson Hall when I started studying medicine in Glasgow in 1964, but that tin today tasted so good! Mind you, some of the food I marvel at here now, I remember testing at home last winter and finding rather bland, mushy and tasteless!
Anyway, in M2 is now only 30 l water (part of important ballast) and used gas cans – and the broken egg below. M1 has more water, all unused cans, eggs, marge and an unopened bag of white wine. Life-raft is back on top.
Now supper!
