Day 4 and all is well

Irena here - Well I guess some of us are taking a little longer to adjust than Cress!

With the wind easing just a wee bit last night, and the sun coming out to grace our day, everything seems just a bit brighter. We are finally getting some rhythm on this passage. Well, at the very least I am finally feeling fine, motion sickness has finally passed. Still a fair amount of motion knocking us about the cabin below. Eitan was thrown across the boat twice yesterday(once with a basin of saltwater - yuck!) - but still all in one piece (except for the saltwater which spread itself all about the cabin sole).

I find when the motion is like this, you need to do everything in slow motion and remember to brace yourself all the time (which is something difficult to do for us type a's who are used to doing 5 things at the same time). So when I get knocked off balance, I get really pissed with the boat, and with anyone who happens to be within 5 feet of me! It's the same as when you hit our head on the cupboard door - that you, and only you left open. You want to blame someone, anyone! But in the end, there is no one there to take the blame - so you sulk a little, lick your wounds and carry on, being a little more careful for a while, until the boat takes an unexpected lurch.... and it starts all over again!

I am curious about how Eitan sees it - will ask him to post his thoughts. We all felt so miserable yesterday afternoon, we actually passed on happy hour! At about 5 pm each day we all get together for a beer, or G&T if we can manage it, or a scotch if things are particularly tough - but yesterday, each in our own misery, too wet in the cockpit to even think about gathering there, and not feeling very social, we just didn't bother. Nothing was said, it just seemed to be a general consensus.

But today is a whole new day! Sun is shining, cockpit dry and spirits rising - YES and did I mention that it is actually pretty glorious out there? Big huge waves that slip under us and carry us forward, a few birds that have been following us and who fly with such ease and grace over the waves, they are like watching a ballet. Today is a great day to be alive!

In the meantime, I will slowly go to the galley now and make a cup of tea...