Day 6
There's nothing like tinned pineapple and peaches with yoghurt to start the day, and the on-watch took great delight in the refreshing treat as we watched the sun rise. The wind keeps teasing us with a direct course to Port Antonio before switching direction and forcing us to come higher. Nonetheless, we should be arriving early tomorrow, having made exceptional time along the way. Natalie has been educating us about the tragic situation in Haiti as we head north into the Jamaica Channel and pass between the two islands. It's hard to sit in the tranquility that we are so very privileged to be experiencing and picture the chaos, fear, and humanitarian crisis taking place just 45 nm away. – Emily
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Hat overboard!
On June 4, we reviewed our passage plan before our departure from the marina in Hjellested.
Departure from Bergen!
The crew on the women’s sail training on Isbjorn is settling into a great routine for managing the boat and life onboard.
The sun sets on another journey
The hardest part of sailing across French Polynesia wasn't the night watches, the heat, or the open ocean — it was the prospect of being trapped on a small boat with a group of strangers. First-timer Natalie boards as a self-described land crab and discovers that the sea has a way of reshaping both your sea legs and your assumptions. What follows is dolphins, sharks, the Milky Way in full technicolour, and a crew that somehow made the whole thing better than she ever imagined.