16 th February

Time wizzing by.  Not up to much as weather still crappy.  Been organizing safety equipment though and got my flares (4 hand red, 4 parachute red and 1 orange smoke), lifejackets (2), saftey harness, and fire extinguisher, head torches and tacked on a small power kite in case the mast falls down.    Off to town tomorrow to speak to our insurance company that insures my fishing boat to see what the options are.  Only looking for compulsory 3rd party for marina stays.  Got to have insurance before being allowed in the marina.

Food!!!

I like my food!!

Started this afternoon with experimenting on producing our own dehydrated food for the adventure.  Starting in very basic experiments.  Several types of pasta and some rice. (all precooked).

This is very early stages and looking forward to the results.

Stacked in our new dehydrator which has a much larger capacity (10 trays).  Our old one was great but small capacity.  Got to learn the quirks of this new box of tricks - very quiet compared to our old one but cost almost 4 times the price !

Mrs Nuts also cooked up a Chilli Con Carne and a Spagetti sauce which will be the next victims for the dehydrator.  Going to vacuum seal and do a test eat in a few days as well as a set aside and test eat in a few months.  This keeps us occupied and makes the kitchen smell nice.  

Lots of ideas on the food front thanks to Youtube.  Just got to test and try.

Marty Bates - a fishing partner from many years ago - has offered a welcome to me with a mooring in Sao Nicalao in the Cape Verdes.  He is a top world recognized big game fishing captain and a super nice guy from NZ and now living and operating big game fishing and a BandB out of the Cape Verde.  (maybe he can be convinced to help out several Setka Captains for a jolly 😜