A turn for the worse...

Jon describes it as no longer a happy ship. Maybe this happens after strangers spend so much time together at close quarters or maybe there are other conditions unique to ours that have made it so. I believe it is the later. Before embarking on this part of the adventure I asked Skipper Lewi, through his experience what I should expect. He mentioned that food always becomes an issue on board. Here I definitely agree, as it seems meal time is filled with a dig or too from the skipper, usually stating that we have used to much food. It seems we can't put a foot right of late and every watch relief comes with a compliant as to our actions. I believe there is a high correlation between this and my truthfulness about abandoning ship at the next stop, Panama. If its not the use of the communial space then is the washing up which we do everyday without compliant. If its not the knot tieing, its the use of the battery power. It been pretty primative stuff. We use head torches for everything we do, no use of the showers or running water, no hot water etc. I think it also put things into perspective when we made some mates in Trinidad delivering yachts too and compared war stories.Yup, its become your regular boot camp, lead by Heinrich Himmler of the Gestapo. With all this negativity one has to take some lessons from it,to make it worth while. I believe the main one is you may know all there is to know about your something, but if you can't lead, inlfuence or motivate the Indians, the wheels will come off sooner or later. So its with a self driven happy bounce and postive attitude I have ridden the swells over this last week. But I can safely say I will be happy to get my feet onto dry land once more and on to the next part of my little adventure.