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NDS Darwin - Lucia's blog



Day 6 onboard... we just spent the last two most relaxing days. 


I'm right now watching an amazing sunset, I've seen hundreds of sunsets over the sea but each one is different. Each one has it's own energy, it's own story to be told. Each one is shared wit different people, in a different country or ocean. But this one was well deserved after the first few days we spent with storms and strong winds. 


Despite being with no wind, despite not being first on the leaderboard, we are enjoying this crossing.. Maybe the last one on this boat. We are not forcing her or getting ourselves really stressed over the weather. We are fishing, we are drinking wine, we are happy. 


Maybe the north route would have been the correct one or the one that would have make us win, get there faster. But right now we don't regret our decision, maybe we'll in a couple of days when we are already tired. But not tonight!


Regarding the genoa, we still didn't make any progress. We are trying to figure out what happened to the halyard. Diego had to climb up the mast yesterday to bring it down, but is still not going as smooth as we would like it to so we don't think is safe to hoist it yet. 


Fishing, we really need to fish.. we didm't calculate food to go so many days without fishing, we just caught our third fish but two of them were really wired/night time ones or a tinny baby mahi mahi that we decided to throw back. 


My watch yesterday night was amazing, had the most bright bioluminescent plankton I ever saw. It was like the thousands of stars in the sky were reflecting on the water. I lay down on the bow and couldn't enjoy it more. Did almost 4 hours of watch instead of 2. I even saw 4 shooting stars! 

No fleet boats on sight, only yesterday passed a couple of non-fleet sailing yachts. 


1.600 miles to go! 


I did blow my birthday candles, and had a great sunset with dolphins and a rainbow!

Out for now, Lucia on NDS Darwin


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