December 9, 2015 – The last day of our Atlantic Ocean crossing…! It started a bit tough after a night of many clouds, extreme heat, strong rains and weird wind shifts. When my night shift started I joined Herman in what was a totally grey world with no sight around us and only strong rain. The bad part of these squalls is the waves and the rock and rolling inside the boat where people are trying to sleep. The good part is that they only take 15 to 20 minutes.
Today there were no more squalls and the sky brightened up. It was still very very hot and we’ve been sitting in the shade all day. Herman and Gerard had put the parasailor up which made us go smoothly more and more towards Saint Lucia. Only 130 miles to go……..!
We’ve seen many birds today and also 3 other ships! It becomes cosy here at sea ;) Clear signs that we are approaching land. It’s the topic of the day to estimate at what time we will arrive at Saint Lucia. We expect to arrive around 4AM. We managed to overtake 1 other boat in our group, so now we are on position number 10. In a few days from now we will hear the final results as some factors like hours of motor and ship size will need to be taken into account. Anyways, what matters to us most is that we have had an amazing journey together and that we are almost there to put a nice, cold rum punch to our lips – even at 4AM!
Besides talking and dreaming of Saint Lucia we have cooked some nice dishes again. For lunch we had grilled pieces of Daan’s ‘tiger tuna’ with some delicious pasta. For dinner we usually keep it light and we ate bread and toasts with different toppings. It was the best bread Inge has baked so far (we didn’t expect it could be even better!). And as a dessert Mariette had some freshly baked brownies for us.
And now we go into the last night of our Atlantic Ocean crossing…! So far the sky is clear and the stars shine bright. We hope it stays like this so that we can catch some sleep and wake up early early morning to see the land of Saint Lucia in sight and to cross the finish line with all crew on board and enter the harbour of Rodney Bay.
We’re almost there!