I met some Polish guys who broke some of their rigging (Starboard Upper). They didn’t speak English very well; however one of them spoke Russian. My Russian was better then his English, so I was really their only option. They seemed so helpless not speaking English. I really need to work on my Spanish & French to survive better on this trip. I grew up in a European family where 5 languages were spoken at the table, talk about confusing.
It started raining hard around 17:00 and gusting over 35Kts. I fiddled with the SSB receiver and managed to get a weather fax, I could barely read it.
Didn’t go ashore today. I did some cleaning, and polished some of the stainless, it was looking rather poor. One of the locals told me to use Sno-Blo toilet bowl cleaner for my stainless, and for rust stains on the fiberglass, and boy was he right. It works better then on-an-off, and costs under $3.00 a bottle. It’s by far the best stainless cleaner I’ve found yet.
I’ve been really tired lately, I can’t ever seem to find any energy. I think it’s the heat and confinement of the boat. One of my friends told me that you sleep a lot when cruising, it’s true.
I started a new book today (Wind from the Carolinas), about the Loyalist migration from the Carolinas to the Bahamas, it’s pretty thick; I hope it takes my mind off of the wind.
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Adrift Beneath an Unfamiliar Sky