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Ximera - Day twenty one - Aroma of land




14∞27.84N - 56∞51.11W --> 14∞09.33N - 59∞32.12W

I wake up for my watch and I realize that tomorrow we will arrive in St. Lucia after three weeks at sea.

Now the GPS says 200 miles to go, 30 hours.

I'm a bit sad, this is our last day of our crossing, tonight we will have our last watches and we will say goodbye to all the happy animals' names that had been our companions for these 21 days.

We'll stop rolling, we 'll stop trimming sails, checking the rigging in the morning, having funny sea-bucket showers, fish incredible fish and tales, seeing beautiful and amazing sea-life phenomema and a lot more.

Of course I'm happy and excited to land in the Caribbean, but I'll also be happy to continue sailing non stop to an indefinite destination.

Maybe, just a quick provisioning stop for fresh vegetables and fresh fruit, say hello to some friend and then cut the mooring lines again.

Also, because after 21 days the change is represented by landing, while sailing is to continue the normal life.

Anyway, we have all added a lot of sea water to our blood circulation, we have a clearer perspective of distances, of the shape and of the direction of rotation of our world (anti-clockwise), we have learned something about the navigation by maximum arc, our brain has tilted on the obliqual-conformal projection on the atlantic chart searching for coordinates and bearings.

We've done the atlantic crossing on a sailboat.

And we're happy.



happy raimbow

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