Me voilà a une semaine dans l'océan. Le vent est bien présent, la houle se fait bien sentir et on avance bien. Un autre 250 mile nautique en 2 jours. Nous voilà a plus de 1254 km de la terre ferme. Il nous reste encore 3800 km d'océan a franchir avant notre arriver. Ouche! Ca, ca veux dire encore 2 semaine et demis a se faire brasser la cage par papa Neptune, si tout va bien ... ;) lol assez incroyable non?
Ca parait long tout ca mais les journées passe tellement vite.
L'ambiance est bonne a bord. Je cuisine pas mal et ca fais du bien à notre esprit. C'est pas mal extrême comme cuisine et même dangereux lol. J'aime ca les défis. Hier on s'est fais visiter a deux reprise par deux gros pod de dauphin. C'était assez génial comme expérience. Surtout que j'ai réussie à filmer sous l'eau à l'avant du bateau?.wow et re wow ! Les images sont à couper le souffle. L'océan est d'un bleu magique et il y a plein de dauphin partout qui nage sur exciter. Même qu'on les entend nous parler avec leurs petits bruits aigues. Je vous montre ca des qu'on a une connexion internet rapide. La c'est par radio HF donc c limité.
A part de ca le ciel est magnifique à chaque matin et à chaque soir. Les idées se font aller dans ma tête, de tout bord tout coté. J'ai même dessiné un design pour mon premier tatou polynésien. Je pense a chacun de vous un petit peux a chaque jours. Il me reste pas mal d'aventure à vivre et ca me fais un grand plaisir de vous les partager. Mais encore plus plaisir quand on va être sur la terre ferme car là j'écries sur le bateau en pleine mers et on a un vent de 18 noeuds de dos et des vagues de 15 pieds qui nous font avancer et basculer de gauche a droite. Je me sert les fesse en TA pour pas frapper les mures avec mon trop grand corp.
C'est à suivre pour des histoires qui viennent de plus en plus loin?
A+
Sunday, March 31, 2013
First Week on the Ocean - Day 7 [English]
So here we are, a week on the ocean. The wind and swell are very present and pushing us quickly forwards. Another 250 miles traveled in 2 days. We are more than 1254 km from land. We still have to navigate for 3800 km of ocean before we arrive. Ouch! This means we still have to be on the ocean for at least 2 weeks...being shacked all over the place by Daddy Neptune...if everything goes well ;) Incredible no? It might look long, but everyday goes by quickly.
The ambiance is good on board. I cook a lot and it's good for our spirit. It's kind of extreme cooking in the kitchen, even dangerous at times. But I like the challenge. Yesterday we were visited twice by large pods of dolphins. It was a wonderful experience. I was even able to fill them underwater in front of the boat. Wow and Wow! The images were astonishing. The ocean is a marvelous blue magic and we can see dolphins everywhere swimming excitedly around the boat. We can even hear them talking to us with their high pitched voices. I will show you the video as soon as we have a good internet connection. Now the emails are through HF radio, with a limited connection.
Other than that, the sail is beautiful, especially in the mornings and evenings. I have a lot of ideas in my head. I'm even designing my first Polynesian tattoo. I'm thinking about all of you a little bit every day. We still have lots of adventures to live and it's always a pleasure to share this with you, but it will be even better when we reach land. Now we have 18 knots of wind at our stern with 10 foot swell, so I'm watching my back to avoid injuring my tall body on our small boat.
To be continued from farther and farther away...
Cheers!
Jonathan
The ambiance is good on board. I cook a lot and it's good for our spirit. It's kind of extreme cooking in the kitchen, even dangerous at times. But I like the challenge. Yesterday we were visited twice by large pods of dolphins. It was a wonderful experience. I was even able to fill them underwater in front of the boat. Wow and Wow! The images were astonishing. The ocean is a marvelous blue magic and we can see dolphins everywhere swimming excitedly around the boat. We can even hear them talking to us with their high pitched voices. I will show you the video as soon as we have a good internet connection. Now the emails are through HF radio, with a limited connection.
Other than that, the sail is beautiful, especially in the mornings and evenings. I have a lot of ideas in my head. I'm even designing my first Polynesian tattoo. I'm thinking about all of you a little bit every day. We still have lots of adventures to live and it's always a pleasure to share this with you, but it will be even better when we reach land. Now we have 18 knots of wind at our stern with 10 foot swell, so I'm watching my back to avoid injuring my tall body on our small boat.
To be continued from farther and farther away...
Cheers!
Jonathan
Saturday, March 30, 2013
Message from a Friend - Day 6
I didn't realize how alone I was feeling until I read a message from a friend.
My bestest friend, Treenie, had the idea of giving us 3 messages that we could read at the end of week 1, 2 and 3 of our sail across the Pacific. The messages were emailed to Chris, who saved them in a secret folder, away from my curious eyes before we left. I'm not very good about saving surprises. At the time, I thought the messages were a very nice idea, but never knew how deeply I would be affected when reading them.
The winds have picked up, which is great for our speed, but it also means the seas have gotten lumpier and I felt instantly seasick when I awoke this morning. I also just got my period and everything was annoying me. Does the boat always creak and roll this much when sailing downwind? Has there always been so much mess and clutter around the boat? Safe to say, I wasn't in the finest of moods.
Chris asked me when today I wanted to read Treenie's first message. "Now is a good time", I replied. I got through about 2 lines before bursting into tears, overwhelmed with gratitude for my friend's caring spirit and beautiful letter to us. Chris read the message aloud to all of us in the cockpit as we sailed away. It was a special moment.
Sometimes it's hard to admit to yourself how you're feeling. I'm definitely feeling more alone out here than I thought. Treenie's message was an infusion of love into my soul from a friend, something I didn't realize I needed so much until I got it. Thank you from the bottom of my heart my dear friend. I'm already looking forward to week #2's message.
Maybe the animal world heard that I was in need of a friend because we've gotten many visitors today. We've seen 2 pods of dolphins, dozens of birds (boobies and frigates), flying fish and a sea turtle. To trump it all we saw a boobie standing on a sea turtle's back, with another boobie floating near by, like it was waiting in line for it's turn. What a sight! I'm not sure I would have believed it unless I saw it with my own eyes.
My bestest friend, Treenie, had the idea of giving us 3 messages that we could read at the end of week 1, 2 and 3 of our sail across the Pacific. The messages were emailed to Chris, who saved them in a secret folder, away from my curious eyes before we left. I'm not very good about saving surprises. At the time, I thought the messages were a very nice idea, but never knew how deeply I would be affected when reading them.
The winds have picked up, which is great for our speed, but it also means the seas have gotten lumpier and I felt instantly seasick when I awoke this morning. I also just got my period and everything was annoying me. Does the boat always creak and roll this much when sailing downwind? Has there always been so much mess and clutter around the boat? Safe to say, I wasn't in the finest of moods.
Chris asked me when today I wanted to read Treenie's first message. "Now is a good time", I replied. I got through about 2 lines before bursting into tears, overwhelmed with gratitude for my friend's caring spirit and beautiful letter to us. Chris read the message aloud to all of us in the cockpit as we sailed away. It was a special moment.
Sometimes it's hard to admit to yourself how you're feeling. I'm definitely feeling more alone out here than I thought. Treenie's message was an infusion of love into my soul from a friend, something I didn't realize I needed so much until I got it. Thank you from the bottom of my heart my dear friend. I'm already looking forward to week #2's message.
Maybe the animal world heard that I was in need of a friend because we've gotten many visitors today. We've seen 2 pods of dolphins, dozens of birds (boobies and frigates), flying fish and a sea turtle. To trump it all we saw a boobie standing on a sea turtle's back, with another boobie floating near by, like it was waiting in line for it's turn. What a sight! I'm not sure I would have believed it unless I saw it with my own eyes.
Friday, March 29, 2013
Movie Night and Dolphins - Day 5
Last night everyone was in high spirits after the nightly HF radio net. Anne-Marie did a great job moving the net over to channel 6A to avoid the static on channel 8A, and got everyone's reports in a orderly fashion. The full moon was rising and Busby was in the process of whipping up some tortilla pizzas which made me think it would be the perfect night to have the first semi-weekly Starship movie night!
That is how it came to pass that we spent last night sailing along at a pleasant 3.5 knots, sitting in the cockpit, watching the full moon rise, eating pizza & cake all while watching "A Night's Tale". It was quite a magical experience, which I'm sure will not be forgotten by anyone onboard.
The next morning, Anne-Marie and I were awoken to Busby yelling down the companion way hatch "DOLPHINS!! DOLPHINS!!". We shot up instantly out of bed, and once we realized the boat wasn't sinking, we made out way to the bow to see the dolphins playing. It was really neat to see them in such crystal clear blue water.
Those were pretty well the highlights of our day today. We are still hoping for more wind tomorrow, although right now we are trucking along at a nice 5 knots.
That is how it came to pass that we spent last night sailing along at a pleasant 3.5 knots, sitting in the cockpit, watching the full moon rise, eating pizza & cake all while watching "A Night's Tale". It was quite a magical experience, which I'm sure will not be forgotten by anyone onboard.
The next morning, Anne-Marie and I were awoken to Busby yelling down the companion way hatch "DOLPHINS!! DOLPHINS!!". We shot up instantly out of bed, and once we realized the boat wasn't sinking, we made out way to the bow to see the dolphins playing. It was really neat to see them in such crystal clear blue water.
Those were pretty well the highlights of our day today. We are still hoping for more wind tomorrow, although right now we are trucking along at a nice 5 knots.
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Slow Ride To The Trades - Day 4
Not much to report today.
We are moving quite slowly towards our destination under really light winds. It looks like stronger winds will be a few days out, as the trade winds should fill in and we can get moving at warp speed.
Moral has been high onboard though! Our main problem has been trying to eat all of the pastries which Busby has been baking. He made some delicious banana bread and banana muffins a couple days back. Then yesterday he made some chocolate banana muffins and a cake! We are still working on all the meals he made as before we left in addition! Life is tough :)
Three boobies spent the night on our bow pulpit last night. It was pretty funny watching them try to land on it. There were 6-8 boobies jockeying for position on the pulpit, and the one's which already landed would squawk and try to knock the others off. In the morning the boobies were still there, and didn't mind us coming up to join them! They just sat there while we walked up to within a few inches of them, and prepared the whisker pole for deployment. Definitely the highlight of the day today.
We are moving quite slowly towards our destination under really light winds. It looks like stronger winds will be a few days out, as the trade winds should fill in and we can get moving at warp speed.
Moral has been high onboard though! Our main problem has been trying to eat all of the pastries which Busby has been baking. He made some delicious banana bread and banana muffins a couple days back. Then yesterday he made some chocolate banana muffins and a cake! We are still working on all the meals he made as before we left in addition! Life is tough :)
Three boobies spent the night on our bow pulpit last night. It was pretty funny watching them try to land on it. There were 6-8 boobies jockeying for position on the pulpit, and the one's which already landed would squawk and try to knock the others off. In the morning the boobies were still there, and didn't mind us coming up to join them! They just sat there while we walked up to within a few inches of them, and prepared the whisker pole for deployment. Definitely the highlight of the day today.
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
300 Miles Des Cotes - Jour 3 [French]
Nous voila a près de 300 miles nautique de la cote. C'est a plus de 500 km de tout terre ferme. 3 jours plus tard en plein milieux du grand bleu. L'eau est magnifique. On a vue des tortues, des oiseaux et quelques gros paquebots. Ya un des paquebot qui était assez proche et sur notre trajectoire qu'il y a fallu communiquer par radio avec lui pour s'assurer qu'il nous passe pas dessus.
Aujourd'hui l'océan est calme le vent nous souffle tranquillement vers notre destination, a peine a 3 noeuds. Les voiles battes au vent et sons a peine gonfler d'air. Le bateau oscille doucement. Le ciel est bleu, l'océan est bleu, tout est bleu. Mes shorts sont bleu, celle a chris sont bleu et le t-shirt a Anne Marie aussi est bleu.
J'ai hâte de plonger dans cette autre eau d?un grand bleu mystérieux a plus de dix mille pieds de profondeur sous la coque du bateau. L'eau est claire comme de du Crystal. J'ai hâte de vivre c'est frissons doux et de rencontrer Neptune ou une sirène...
A+, Busby
Aujourd'hui l'océan est calme le vent nous souffle tranquillement vers notre destination, a peine a 3 noeuds. Les voiles battes au vent et sons a peine gonfler d'air. Le bateau oscille doucement. Le ciel est bleu, l'océan est bleu, tout est bleu. Mes shorts sont bleu, celle a chris sont bleu et le t-shirt a Anne Marie aussi est bleu.
J'ai hâte de plonger dans cette autre eau d?un grand bleu mystérieux a plus de dix mille pieds de profondeur sous la coque du bateau. L'eau est claire comme de du Crystal. J'ai hâte de vivre c'est frissons doux et de rencontrer Neptune ou une sirène...
A+, Busby
300 nautical Miles Later - Day 3 [English]
Here we are at 300 nautical miles from the coast. It is more than 500km from any land. 3 days later in the middle of the big blue. The water is magnificent. We have seen turtles, birds and big cargo ships. We called the cargo ship on the VHF radio, to make sure they wouldn't run us over.
Today the ocean is calm and the wind is blowing us slowly towards our destination at only 3 knots. The sails are flapping and barely full of air. The boat is rocking from side to side. The sky is blue, the ocean is blue, everything is blue, even my shorts, Chris' shorts and Anne-Marie's shirt!
I can't wait to dive into that mysterious water at more than ten thousand feet deep under the keel. The water is clear like crystal. I can't wait to feel the goose bumps from jumping into the water, and maybe meet Neptune or a mermaid of my dreams.
See you later, Busby
Today the ocean is calm and the wind is blowing us slowly towards our destination at only 3 knots. The sails are flapping and barely full of air. The boat is rocking from side to side. The sky is blue, the ocean is blue, everything is blue, even my shorts, Chris' shorts and Anne-Marie's shirt!
I can't wait to dive into that mysterious water at more than ten thousand feet deep under the keel. The water is clear like crystal. I can't wait to feel the goose bumps from jumping into the water, and maybe meet Neptune or a mermaid of my dreams.
See you later, Busby
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