Stay with me as I try to put all I want to say in a quick email done from the library where I have no idea how long I have due to the fact all of the signs are in dutch. ya.nee. dank you.Sooooo.... it took 25 days to sail the atlantic. I made it. (List form works best right about now)
-Sharks on cresting gale waves as we take down the main sail
-a walrus off the grand banks
-waves so big from hurricane karl that the whole 100 ft boat rode up one side and down the other...along with the companion fin whale that stayed all day
-hundreds of white sided dolphins that you could FEEl through the hull of the boat...at night you could see them swirling around in the bioluminescents AMAZING!!!!
-I took the helm on most of the rough weather times (the captain said my blood is part sea water)...picture this if you can...gale 7, tide change, night time, dover strait, huge container boats everywhere and we had to take sails down!! the wheelhouse was lifting off the deck with the sheer power of it all.
- Another night we had another gale and the captain said there were things in his cabin that hadn't moved, shifted/flew across the room, in years and at that point we were in the North sea with oil rigs everywhere.
-saw a submarine come up right in front of us
We arrived in Ijmuiden, Netherlands Sunday...took a trip on the drug cops/customs zodiac after we (Emily &i) showed them how to make handcuffs out of rope
-Went to my first "cafe" ...hung out with the tender after hours at the local hells angels bar "the Cuckoos Nest"
-Took in the sights of Amsterdam after sailing up the canal
-Now I am in a province named Friesland in a town called Lemmer.
so much to tell but getting kicked off the comp...i will write soon again.
My graceful goose.
{first publishedby Sea Siren Tales ~ The Drifting Chronicles on Monday, 13 April 2009 at 23:21}
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