We have thought long and hard about sharing this blog.. but we feel that to get a real insight into short handed offshore sailing, this list should be given to the world..
1. Use a bucket as a toilet - often using gravity and various bits of equipment to secure oneself into a corner to limit movement or the potential of a bucket disaster.
2. Creating ingenious methods to prevent brown things sticking to said bucket...
3. Comparing bladder capacity using the in-bucket measuring scale.
4. Grab two random tins of food... combine and consume
5. Share a toothbrush with someone other than your partner (desperate times call for desperate measures!)
6. Forget to brush teeth/change underwear for an unacceptably long period of time.
7. Dip finger into unknown clear fluids to ascertain whether salt or fresh.
8. Give inanimate objects names, personalities and, in Lingley's case, acts of love!
9. Hot bunk one sleeping bag for two weeks or more.
10. Sleep in ridiculously short periods and helm for impossibly long periods, resulting in random hallucinations.
Top hallucinations include:
Flying pugs
Black cats scampering about in the boat
Bats attacking the helm
Random people sitting by the leeward jib clew
Of course, lots of other things might happen on board, but the old rule of "What happens onboard, stay onboard" is pretty strong here!
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