Does Anyone Love Olives?

Today Franco and I were highly criticized for turning down the olives on our salads with lunch. We are anchored in Louisburg, NS on the east side of Cape Breton Island right now and will be spending the night here. Tomorrow we begin some real sailing. We are leaving in the morning to make the sail to Newfoundland. With forecasted winds strong from the southwest we should arrive in Port Saunders, on the west coast of the island, sometime on the 23rd. We had 20-25kts from the west/southwest today for our sail up here from St. Peter's which was really nice. I'm still trying to get used to the whole cruising mentality thing, for instance, we haven't had the full main up once so far, and I don't think it's likely that we ever will. The first day we had it up with 3 reefs in, and today we just flew the yankee, the stay sail and the mizzen with the mizzen stay sail for a short while. The main is just a lot of work apparently. We also do our best to not have to sail upwind...if we can avoid it with when we time our sailing we do, and if we can't then we motor. It's a very strange concept to get used to. As it has worked out I've been left with heaps of free time and have become fully engrossed in the Game of Thrones novels. I practically walk around with my kindle in hand all day. I've spent the better part of today lounging in the cockpit on top of the mizzen staysail, when it wasn't up, reading. It's been bright and sunny aside from a few rain squalls this morning so we're all trying to soak in the warmth on deck while we can. Oh and during our sail today we saw a massive leatherback turtle surface alongside the boat. They are amazing turtles and SO HUGE. When we make it to Port Saunders on the 23rd the plan is to do a fire drill of a refuel and grocery shopping and be on our way to Greenland on the morning of the 24th so as to make the best of the southwest breeze as long as we can. Cheers for now, Andrew and Captain Alex in Boston on July 14th