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 Pre-Trip Talk-

 On Monday Sept 15, Walter asks me If  I can be at the boat at 3PM to meet the other crew members. They wanted to meet me before they they would accept me as part of the crew. I already knew Jerry, but never met Richard. I show up and it turns out to be a pretty nice meeting. The first topic was the food. They wanted to know if I agreed with their food  plans. It turns out that Richard was a vegan and he would do all the shopping, make up the menu, and do all the cooking. When I heard that he would do all the cooking I gladly agreed to the whole food plan.
    After this the captain gives a talk about what is expected of the crew. First: absolutely no drinking while the boat is in motion. Second: If someone in the crew is performing some type of task, another crew member should not yell at tell him that he is doing it wrong. Jerry differs with this and says that if the crew member is not doing the task correctly that he should be corrected. I myself suggest that instead of telling him that he is not doing it correctly better to suggest that you help him do it, and in this way you can get the task on the right track.
   Next the captain lets us know that he is the captain and that he has the last word.

   I want to add at this point a feeling I have as to how the food accommodations were made. In the beginning ( I wasn't there)  when Walter was planning the trip, he mentioned the whole itinerary to Jerry. Jerry and his friend Richard, being very excited about the trip, must of volunteered to buy and pay for all the food.   Now I am coming aboard and also being happy to make the trip, I do not complain and also come up with a few hundred dollars toward the food. Personally , my inner feelings are, the captain being happy to have a crew to help him sail his boat to some destination should of forked over all the money for the food, but again, like these guys I smiled and paid.

 Sept 26 -

The day after the blog incident I show up at the boat and find out that Richard, the priest, will not be making the trip. Personal reasons. Anyway now there is a lot of talk about the food that he has bought. Remember the vegetarian thing? Well now we have two problems, one is a lot of food that we are not very happy with, and also without much protein, and second 'Who is going to do the cooking?  Jerry shows up at the boat and in a meeting it's agreed that he will go shopping the morning of the cruise and supplement the meals with meats. The cooking part has still not been determined.