Atlantblog: A shower!

5/12 Position: 17°08´96"N 52°34´47"W

"Here it comes, close the windows and reef the sails!!!" It is time for our first real rain shower. The rain cloud sweeps in and swallows the entire Pixel with its impenetrable gray mass. It completely pours down but still it is surprisingly pleasant, big heavy drops with a pleasant temperature. The wind increase was not at all as dangerous as we had expected. Fredrik rips off his clothes and takes the opportunity to take a long-awaited freshwater shower. Shampoo is brought out and more of the crew follow Fredrik's example. However, the shower does not last more than 5 minutes, the guys who have just soaked themselves in shower soap are still forced to take out the bucket and rinse themselves with salt water. The rain cloud disappears further west and swallows a sailboat a few distances in front of us that we have been accompanied by during the morning.

After the scouring, it is a cup of student noodles for lunch, the lunches in the future will be a little easier. Herlog is not particularly impressed by the artificial chicken flavor but Jonathan who has never tried anything like this before is surprisingly impressed. We chew on, the winds have gone down a bit and it looks like we will make it to St. Lucia on Tuesday afternoon.

Mathias