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2. Weather: clouds, squalls, rains, systems, and fronts; and waves: their shapes, lengths, curves, crests, heights 3. Today’s run: how many knots we did today, why we did not do more knots, how many knots we could have done if only…., runs of the past, runs of the future, other boats’ runs, word-plays with knots (knot funny) 4. Horror wind and weather stories, followed by optimistic predictions about how quickly this trip will be over, despite unfavorable wind 5. Boats: favorite boats, shitty boats, ideal boats, boats sailed, boats owned, boats seen, boats imagined 6. Motors and anything else that needs fixing on board, and how to accomplish the repairs, along with chest-thumping stories about impossible repairs pulled off in the past 7. Other boats with the same destination, the bad course they chose (given 1, 2, and 3), and, above all, how to beat them 8. Fish – as far as I can tell, fish are never caught, but that does not stop endless talk about how to prepare the fish that will be caught shortly 9. Heads: how to shop for them, how to judge how well they sit, how to measure load, how to install heads (at home and on board), how they’ve been enjoyed, and how they’ve mal-functioned. In that case, it is happily back to 6 10. Lastly, in response to a certain someone pointing out that the boat might use some cleaning, the answers are either “this is a boat, Marjo,” or “we will do that when we get there.” After the latter answer, it is back to 1 |
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