Noeluna by night, 9th Dec, 2350 UTC
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Dear All, Only 200 miles to go, we start feeling the land…We
will probably get there in the early hours of Friday. No suitable opportunity
for swimming today. If anything, we went through one more squall this morning, but
a small one, with winds between 35 and 40 knots and lots of rain. In the
afternoon, blue sky and bright sun but heavy swell. One can’t help envy Matthieu, Marie-Anne, Ferdinand
and Marguerite who will enjoy the fantastic opportunity to continue the adventure
in quite unknown territories, following Magellan’s path, another fellow
sailor. Life is beautiful and sailing is one of the best part of it. Noeluna is
a fine boat, sane and solid if not the quickest and definitely very
comfortable. May the wind be with you! So, St Lucia next. We are now betting to guess from which
distance we will start seeing the land. Given that we will probably arrive by
late night, we might see a light house from quite far away, so not easy to
guess. Our numbers vary between 6 and 40 miles, so not quite a consensus. We
hope to convince Come to take his anti sea sickness patch away for the picture
as we cross the line but he now looks pretty addicted to it. We have just
started to inform him about land sickness as our bodies are now completely
tuned to sea mode and we are constantly moving our bodies to balance. The smell
of ti-punch is keeping us alert and it will be a very nice feeling to get to a
nice bar in Rodney Bay and order 4 of them. Maybe we will buy a newspaper too to
see what the world now looks like: have the apes taken over yet? We feel very
open minded at this stage. It is not that often that one gets cut from
everything for 3 weeks and there is nothing like sailing to get away from
everything. Of course, we are not completely cut out but still, when you are on
the seas, your mind is gone from the business world and we are not missing it
whatsoever. The main concerns are the weather and the chafe and everything else
comes next. Nice and simple life. Happy night and happy Thursday from the blue world of
Noeluna |