#6 Summer reading. Around the world on a 6.50-meter boat. The Departure/3
THE PERFECT GIFT!
Give or treat yourself to a subscription to the print + digital Journal of Sailing and for only 69 euros a year you get the magazine at home plus read it on your PC, smartphone and tablet. With a sea of advantages.
It is 10h26’28” UTC on Oct. 26, 2009, and I have just embarked on a solo, nonstop, unassisted round-the-world voyage that involves leaving the three great capes, Good Hope, Leeuwin and Horn, to the left. My feet are not on a classic Vendée Globe boat of more than 18 feet, but on a three times smaller boat that in case of success will become the first under 30 feet and the smallest in the world, for as long as there is memory, to have completed the circumnavigation of the Earth and I will be its skipper. These are strange, profound moments. These are times when you think about everything and nothing. I am not tired but I know I need to rest, to relax. I also know that this will only be possible when I am at a safe distance of several miles from the coast. For the time being, no way. I engage the autopilot and replace the jib with a code zero. A blue fishing boat, enveloped by a multitude of birds in flight, parades on my left. Two speedboats follow me for a few minutes, then the last goodbyes before disappearing into the fog and finding myself alone.
Share:
Check out the latest issue
Are you already a subscriber?
Ultimi annunci
Our social
Sign up for our Newsletter
We give you a gift
Sailing, its stories, all boats, accessories. Sign up now for our free newsletter and receive the best news selected by the Sailing Newspaper editorial staff each week. Plus we give you one month of GdV digitally on PC, Tablet, Smartphone. Enter your email below, agree to the Privacy Policy and click the “sign me up” button. You will receive a code to activate your month of GdV for free!
You may also be interested in.
Farewell to Mauro Morandi, the hermit “guardian” of the island of Budelli
Mauro Morandi, a former physical education teacher originally from Modena who lived on the island of Budelli, Sardinia, for 32 years in complete solitude like a modern-day Robinson Crusoe, has passed away at the age of 85. Mauro Morandi, the
Mystery of Pogo 50 “ghost” stranded in Cefalù solved
Last Dec. 7, a 15-meter sailboat in good condition but without a crew ran aground on the beach in Cefalù, Sicily. After an on-board inspection and a series of investigations, the Coast Guard identified the boat involved in an accident
How to go on a sailing cruise on Lake Maggiore
It often happens to tell of adventures, regattas and crossings bordering on the verisimilar, “salty” experiences, so to speak. Fewer, however, happen to talk about lakes. Yet sailing is certainly no stranger to the lake tradition, and we are not
Replica Viking ship sinks: archaeologist on board dies
Twenty-nine-year-old archaeologist Karla Dana died during the “Legendary Viking Voyage” expedition from the Faroe Islands to Norway aboard a replica Viking ship that capsized due to bad weather. It was supposed to be a voyage back in time when the
