area where wind and waves can travel around the world uninterrupted, getting larger all of the time. After passing below the five great capes, and beyond New Zealand, she will make a small left turn and head northeast toward Hawaii and then on back to Victoria, British Columbia. We’re expecting to go to Victoria to meet her on her return some time in May, 2011. Jeanne was busy all of the time we
were looking over her boat; stowing this, checking one list against another, receiving a large case of soymilk, talking on her cell phone and telling us how to keep eggs fresh for a long time. “Make sure they were not washed after the chicken got through laying them and have never been cooled. If you turn them every day they will stay fresh in their shells for months.” She admitted that the yokes get a little runny after a month or two but the flavor is still there. She was sitting at her navigation station full of instruments and other stuff, when once again I asked her, “Why the trip?” She said, “A lot of people live
aboard their boats in a marina somewhere in the world. They take the
occasional short trip from that marina and return in a day or two. I just happen to wonder what is over the horizon and want to experience it. I don’t want to live in a marina somewhere where the boat next to me also has a live aboard family. The wife likes plants and before long the planted pots have overtaken the cockpit and the ferns and ivy have overgrown the tiller and onto the dock. She thinks it darling and I think it has nothing to do with boats and boating.” When I asked her, “How much is
this journey going to cost you?” again she had exactly the right answer. “I was going to buy a new boat
anyway. I just had it rigged a little differently with easier and more convenient sail handling for such a long journey. I would have to eat three meals a day no matter where I lived, so I can’t consider that as an expense. My fuel tank holds 86 gallons which cost x-dollars wherever I buy fuel for my boat. The wind is free – next question?” That 86 gallons is all she will be allowed for the trip, as she is prohibited from going to port or having any assistance re-provisioning/refueling until back in Victoria.
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approximately seven months which is 210 days. She will prepare and consume 630 meals. Imagine purchasing and stowing that many meals and making sure you don’t have macaroni and cheese nineteen nights in a row? When Jeanne told us the humidity
ranged about 85% for most of the journey, and laundry took six or eight days to dry, Mike Domaille, who had joined us, wondered how many different sets of underwear would she have to take for a journey of that length of time?
Jeanne’s boat name is Nereida,
which is cutter rigged with a furling Genoa and staysail. She has a mast that stretches 58-feet above the waterline. In case of a malfunction at the top of the mast, there are steps bolted to the mast so she can climb up and fix anything that goes wrong. To climb up there she has to set the sails so that the automatic steering keeps it sailing on either port or starboard tack, so she won’t swing back and forth while the boat is rocking violently in a beam sea and throw her
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