Drew sent me on a mission the other day with the task of asking the crew random questions to report back to the boat with a presentation of my findings at noon. I thought I’d share it with you guys to give you a little insight into the Amistad crew! In total we have 182 pairs of socks onboard between us all, Dominic is on the top end with 40 pairs whilst Mike has zero!

Our water machine has the capability of making us 54 gallons of water per hour that is as fast as a weak stream of water from a tap. Since Liverpool we have traveled 550 nautical miles and have used 53 gallons of diesel. If we were all born of the opposite sex our crew would be called, Nigel, Vincent, David, Destiny, Jeanne, Tricky, Dexter, Paul, Stephanie, The Jet, Thomas and Sam! Most of miss our family and friends most at home, Dustin friends have particularly note worthy names: J-rock, Chicken-wing,T-Boogie, Mike-easy and chipmunk! Skylier (aka Skywalker) is missing big bonfires and Mike is missing his truck. Dom is missing some good loving and Danny and Barry are missing nice smells!! When asked what people didn’t miss about home traffic was a general consensus, Skywalker isn’t missing school, Ella doesn’t miss being homeless and unemployed, Drew isn’t missing other peoples expectations, Dustin doesn’t miss the police and Barry and Danny don’t miss the news and George Bush! None of us have forgotten anything particularly significant apart from Ella who has forgotten her bag, Kent his sense of humor and Lessandra her wallet. And just in case anyone was wondering between us the agreed technical term for a shoelace knot is a double slippery reef knot!

Here are a couple of highlights of my last couple of days…

An emergency vaccination drill, which involved us all putting on our emergence suits and this time actually jumping in the water. We all looked ridiculous! But it was so cool as they are totally buoyant and don’t really let any water in and so you can just float about for ages without feeling the cold. Once in the water you are supposed to make a caterpillar basically by putting your legs around someone’s waist whilst on your back and making a human chain, we can move together by moving our arms in circles. In a real emergency we would apparently stuff our suits full of food as well and it has been known for people to survive in them for up to 4 days ion water that can usually kill you in 4 hours.

When docked yesterday a couple of the guys fixed up a rope swing from the top yard. It was fun watching peoples various Tarzan attempts at swinging from the bowsprit, closely avoiding the anchor, and then landing in various shapes and forms into the cold English Channel. Once the bowsprit swing was conquered and confidence was gained they moved onto the shrouds and with each go moved further and further up. I was bricking it and I was just a spectator!! However it looked so much fun but at 6pm in England it wasn’t too tempting, think I’ll save my own swinging skills for when we get further down south! We all went swimming the other morning and after jumping off the bow I literally couldn’t breath for the first couple of mins as it was so cold, but soon warmed up and any opportunity to get slightly clean if not a bit salty then I’m game.

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