GR spits out ABN AMRO's Sea fare

This is pretty funny, especially if you've seen Hell's Kitchen. ABN AMRO One is in the lead of the Vovlo Ocean race.

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Log 68 Skipper Mike Sanderson: boil, boil, toil and...stroganoff?

23 November 2005
Today has been a day of wriggling every little bit of light air performance out of the boat, although we continually appear to be losing miles to the guys behind us. The race that we are actually racing in is to the South, and on that front we are actually gaining ever so slightly. Our payday will come when we get to turn left at the bottom of the high and get to roar across the South Atlantic. The forecast looks like we are in for some breeze, hopefully not scary amounts, but just some good fast sailing.

The boys are taking full advantage of these lighter conditions to get the boat dried out and to check, check and check again every last little detail. Today has been my first day of the trip on Galley Duty. This Volvo Ocean Race sailing has its mundane jobs as well, and life still has its hateful jobs.

Galley duty involves, hot washing all the four plates, spoons and mugs and cleaning out “the Pot”, with our meals on board. Apart from sports/protein bars all we eat is three freeze dried meals a day. It is quite simply a matter of putting two pre-prepared bags into the now clean pot, boiling two kettles of fresh water and pouring them onto this dried powder and stirring for a while.

Then the most important part comes…you put the lid on it, tap it three times and say…"I want this to be beef stroganoff" or whatever it said on the packet. This part is really important, because if you don’t prepare your mind for what it is supposed to be then you would have absolutely no idea…

I wish you could have all seen Gordon Ramsay the famous Chef spit our glorious food out when he got to sample it a few weeks ago. We look forward to him helping us improve it.

So it’s southwards we go. The quicker we can get there, the quicker we can get into some good westerly breezes and start charging our way to Cape Town. We are really starting to look forward to some Cape Town
hospitality, the novelty of the wishing on your meal is starting to wear off, even though the sailing never will…