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Kari: friendly, including skipper.
Pål: smiling watch leader, can fix a little of everything. Very safety-minded.
Signe: super-easygoing watch leader. Skilled sailor, great cook.
Gunvor: inquisitive boasun. Good tempered, full of solutions and suggestions.
Bora: adventure seeking doctor. Stable, cracks us up with gorilla-impersonation.
Esteban: lovable all-rounder. So far, he has been suffering from motion sickness
Cecilie: good hearted, funny, hard working scientist

As a wake-up call at six this morning, the insane squeeking next to my ear stopped. The wind has changed, is more gentle and so are the waves. The temperature inside our cabin increased at least five degrees. I have been wearing my thickest, double layered Brynje underwear for a week. Maybe i can hang it out to air it today.
We are having our first Laugardag. It is called bakkestørn on the ships i have worked before. Everyone participates in cleaning the ship, one area each. Cecilie, the oceanographer, often referred to as «mor», will organize us. I have suggested that everyone takes their bedclothes out for air, and that we take a bath after the job is done. My friends Nicole and Elin gave me some lovely fremst before I left, and I also brought a honey body-scrub that my old neighbour Chelsea gave me in Sandsli.

Today there was a dorado on the line. It managed to get away because the hook was too small. Pål, who was reeling it in put on his lucky fishing hat that we got from Dr Hook, Geir Salvesen. The hooks that are on now are much larger.
Yesterday we had some lovely dorado for dinner, and ceviche for lunch today. We cheated a bit getting it… We were keeping the two rafts together for some repairs of crew and electronics, doctor and electroengineer went to oposite rafts. Some of the sailors swam over to be on the «girl» raft for the afternoon. And they were right to do that! Cecilie had used the outmeal porridge and the rest of our mango to make an amazing bread. We have lots of cheese and the boys were properly wow’ed.

Watches are running smoothly except for Esteban, who is still sea sick. We are trying to let him get enough rest, love and medicine to get him on his feet shortly.

The winds are southerly, but we managed to keep 220-280 on the compass over night. Not bad maneuvering something totally new.

The tow out 30 nm to sea was the worst part so far. Rahiti Tane was in front and Tupac Yupanqui behind. We had 60 m of line in each direction, but the pull on our raft was intense. We had to stop the tug twice to rearrange the lines and put in hardwood and spett to keep the aft balsalog from splitting. I was not happy and stayed up most of the night.

The day got really busy as well. Clearing our bunks, the deck, adjusting guaras, putting the dighy on water to get some toolsfrom the other raft, and finally SETTING SAIL. The other vessel have more experience than us, and are sailing higherand faster. But theyhave towaitforus, that is the agreement. We SAIL together. The forecast is loosing good, and most oft the crew have found their sea legs.

So far the food has been amazing. Signe managed to fire up the galley during the tow and made the most amazing fridd vegetables, and a cooking tip: grate ginger into the soy sauce. Cooking tip 2: keep the avokado-Stone in the guacamole and it does not turn brown.

Now: a little bit of morning yoga and meteorological observation with Cecilie. WE bring you the weather of Humbolt current!!!

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Since Øyvind and I are skippers, we will be the only registred crew aboard. Today, we took our vaksination. We had to bring our passports, although a woman in the senter where we got the vaksination said the street was muy peligroso. I am quite nervous about loosing the passport and other papers now that we are getting so close to departure.
The shot was put in my upper arm, and it felt like I got some extra energy from it. At least I went out for dinner with Signe, Gunvor and Ola. And we met Jostein, Espen, Katarina and Ida. Then Pål and Geir showed up. We are many people here now, 25 in total, but most everybody are going home today or tomorrow. They have been absolutely amazing. Happy even though their days have been long, food poor and rooms crowded.