September 01, 2008
Hi Everyone,
Life onboard the good ship PUMA has been quite a mixture to date with days you want to forget followed by days you will remember for the rest of your life. With our ever rotating watch system the guys get to spend time with mostly everyone onboard. Today we had a couple of Aussies reminiscing of the luck county and its great cuisine. Basically, any cuisine is great compared to the jailhouse slop onboard the slave ship here. Anyway, the conversion between me and Casey Smith turned to some of our favorite foods at home. We could almost taste the dog's eye and a rat coffin washed down with chocolate milk, ummm. I promise these foods are not what they seem and you'll have to find a true blue Aussie if you need a translation.
As we have seen in the previous races, these boats are impressive and not to be taken for granted. I am currently experiencing a lot of trouble sleeping in by bunk. I'm not getting much sleep and it's amazing how little sleep you can go with over these periods at sea. But, in the usual way, when you get tired enough you'll sleep a bit.
Other than the typical toilet stories, all is good here. The team is looking forward to getting to Spain. There is still a lot of work to do but we'll make sure to have a few beers and maybe try to find a dog's eye for lunch.
-Nico
