Delayed Nikolaus

Ship: Regina Maris
Date: 7th of December 2024
Position: Atlantic Ocean
Geographical Position: 15°58.205N 030°05.321W
Etmal: 150nm
Total: 3302nm

After being woken up early for my galley day, I searched for my right croc for five minutes and got progressively more angry.

When I opened the door though and looked into the narrow hallway everything was forgotten because what I saw was my right croc with some chocolate in it. 🙂

In front of every door there were shoes with chocolate in them and everything was decorated in Nikolaus-/Christmas-Style, with lights and further decorations. Everyone else who stood up, had a happy surprise on another day of our Atlantic-crossing.

Filipa and Strate were responsible for the chocolate-presents in our shoes. Leonore and Balthasar did a great job decorating everything and evoking at least a bit of a Christmas spirit in all of us. If you ask yourself now why this did not happen on the Nikolaus-Tag itself, there is a pretty simple answer: It was forgotten. But I think that way the surprise was even better.

Because I mentioned the Atlantic-crossing: For the last two days we had good wind, meaning we’ve been sailing with good speed. This also means the waves are getting bigger, leading the boat to roll pretty strong from time to time (this does not make cooking easier).

The main problem though is that during the nights the hatches have to be closed in order to keep water from getting in, resulting in our cabins to be turned into saunas. Only those with ventilators seem to have it better…

The times of our watches have changed as well, we have the exact opposite timespan now. If you had your watch from 9pm to 1am, it’s now from 9am to 1pm. As a consequence the classes have changed too, morning-class students are now in the afternoon-class.

After the stop in Cape Verde, everybody is getting used to boat life again. That’s good because that is what life will be like until we arrive in the Caribbean.

Bemerkungen:

Marie: Hallo! Ich bin momentan leider etwas erkältet, aber alles gut. 👍 Grüße <3

Timo: Danke, dass ich diese Reise machen darf! Es ist super!!