Maiden Sortie Tarini

Tarini casted off on 03 Mar 17 at 1100hrs from Goa for Mumbai. The newly inducted vessel of Indian Navy has taken its baby steps but it has stepped into the big shoes of its older sister Mhadei as on the same day exactly 8 years back the iconic Mhadei had taken its maiden voyage with our mentor" The First Indian" at the helm and Our Godfather Vice Admiral Awati as his crew so it goes without saying the forthcoming voyages will be equally legendary.

Vj and Aish are onboard getting busy in handling the boat in the absence of other Nautigirls.We thought we were carrying enough ration and fresh drinking water to last us for the sortie but we will now have to be really cautious while cooking sumptious meals since to our dismay we have be been denied entry in the mumbai harbour and now we have to wait for an additional two days at the harbour mouth..Any suggestions for another place of visit nearby??

 So lets us tell you how does it feel like to sail short handed..yesterday after we decided to hoist the sail it took our muscle power to full throtle to take 100kgs of sail up the 25m mast.. after we accomplished this feat we heaved a sigh of relief as our lungs fell short of oxygen.. hats off to Donde and Tomy sir who have done it all by themselves all the way across the globe.The meal prepared afterwards was to compensate for the task accomplished and chole chawal-the first ever meal prepared in the tarini galley along with some fresh curd and mouth watering salad was polished off while cooking itself.

The night was longer than usual as the 24hrs watch on the deck was divided between two of us and we kept taking power naps and power snacks throughout the night...After catching up on some solid sleep after the dawn broke crispy cheese mix veg freshly baked sandwich with strawberry cornflakes topped with fresh strawberry, mango milkshake and orange juice made a simple yet lavish breakfast.

We are now discovering voice of tarini with sea..sailing along with the waves as the tagline says "Dream.Sail.Discover" fair winds and follwing seas and many fathoms under the keel to us.