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Changes in ocean sailing
Last month this was written on the skipper’s laptop as we prepared to leave the island of Tenerife, taking the ketch Eilean back to the Caribbean (p8). And whilst looking forward to the passage, it seemed natural to muse on how ocean sailing can change us; not just in the promotion from rock- dodger to blue-water sailor, but how we might become different in ourselves. Yeah, it was a bit deep for here… Well, the report is: it felt great and I did feel very different – in fact, historically different. Away from the madding crowd, the wi-fi – not to mention whiffy – world, sans mobile and, Sainted-heaven, beyond the grasping fingers of the email-mayhem we call working life... Being, for a change, @sea I was surely reminded of how life was in the 1980s. “Wow, there seems to be time to think,” I
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...truly excellent, to wake up and smell the coffee”
noted in my A5 notebook, shortly after making a leather cover for it at the arts and crafts club, aft deck, SV Eilean, most afternoons from 2pm... Suddenly I think I quite like the 1980s; it was a decade when both
Eilean and I last did a Transatlantic under sail. But I could not claim to be as rejuvenated as she is; she could go on another 75 years, easy. In other aspects the sailing was very modern. We did not use a sextant, although we did plot our position once or twice a day on a very, very small-scale paper chart, and we kept a log book every couple of hours. We put trust in our water-maker, having three-day showers in fresh water and washing clothes too – a sheer luxury that is a comparatively new experience for boats like Eilean. We had a satellite phone, receiving texts about weather and with a limited ability to report back. We recharged that on the 230V supply. We also had a half-way party (above), at 45°W and, it being a boat with Italians on board, it was truly excellent, to wake up and smell the coffee.
CLASSIC BOAT APRIL 2012 7
YOICHI YABE
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