We have now picked up again our weekly bike-down-to-the-farmer's-market saturday routine. At the market we usually get avocados (because we found a stand there we can really trust), eggs (from a sweet old lady that also recycles our egg cartons for us) and fresh orange juice (from this grumpy guy whom we still can't bypass 'cause his pricy orange juice is still just SO good). Otherwise we usually just pick out some seasonal stuff that we seem to need or that looks tasty, sweet corn, tomatoes, grape fruits, oranges, zuccinis, strawberries ... The market's not all that great really, but it does complement the super market nicely sometimes.
After breakfast and stuff we went sailing because it was really to windy to go to the beach. Well, it was almost too windy to sail our little boat too. We realized that while we were rigging the boat already. The wind pulled on the sails alot and it was hard just to hold the boom in place. To top it, after we had put the boat in the water we noticed that our main sheet was too short to let the sail out all the way and that we were gonna have to sail with a tight sail even downwind. This is not ideal if you wanta be able to depower the boat when necessary.
As we took off, I was glad that I have been getting some exposure lately, because sailing the boat was not terribly relaxing. I managed ok though and we did some fun sailing for a while and got plenty of speed. We would get gusts though that would really make our boat lean and make it try to go into the wind, so I would have to hang on to the tiller extra hard to keep the course. We had sailed for a couple of hours already and were just going back and forth on little Sail Bay, across from the Catamarin hotel, when we got one of those gusts. Once we had righted the boat again I suddenly saw this white thing floating in the water. I moved the tiller and got no response! Holy cow, that was our rudder floating out there!
How do you sail without a rudder?? Fortunately, C had some notion of exactly that! He took control of both the sails now, and pulling and letting the sheets he managed to beach us. We then walked the boat around the beach over to the aquatic center. I probably would have been pissed if our rental hours hadn't almost been out anyway. At least we managed to get back and weren't stuck somewhere out in the bay for who-knows-how-long. In a way, this was something of an adventure!
When we got back to the house, I started preparing dinner big-time! I took out the frozen spring roll wraps and to further make use of all the good stuff we got at the vietnamese market last weekend, I decided to make three different dishes: spring rolls, samosas and a kofta recipe. This involved three different meat blends and a hell of a lot of cutting, chopping and shredding, aside from rolling and folding the spring rolls and samosas. Then, the meat ball dough had to sit for an hour before being cooked, the vermicelli had to be soaked and the samosas baked in the oven. All in all, the cooking took a whole two hours. But it was worth it, we thought we had a nice, exotic meal there ...
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