As we run the final turn
18 November 2006
Day 11 Saturday 6:00AM
Position:19.59 / 64.29
as we run the final turn���.
Well our adventure is almost over; we are effectively out of fuel, with no winds and within 80 miles of Tortola. If we had fuel we could be there in12 hours, hell we could have been there two days ago, but we are not. The consolation is that the weather is great, sunny, 90 degrees low humidity, I suspect today we will swim in the Caribbean Sea because da boat not mov?? n and there is nothing else to do. The nights are so amazing here. Not a cloud in the sky and shooting stars and meteors everywhere keeping us amused like little kids, pointing them out to one another. Last night I slept on the deck with the gently rocking of the boat putting me in deep sleep, as Alan calls it John the master sleeper.
We are surviving on canned foods (Alan?? s brother in law suggested we eat the eyes of birds and fish for nutrients) however I have decided to be a trooper and share my ample (well hidden) supply of Kit Kat bars and three Musketeers (ok I also have a 5 pound bag of M&M?? s) I am the only one who didn?? t lose weight on this trip and the only one who need to, I just can?? t figure out this weight problem���.
I thought more about this eclectic group of people that intersected in life to make this trip. I am not sure it was their love of sailing or something else, each of us may have a different reason or maybe a combination of reasons to be here beyond sailing���.one may be to interrupt the mundane life we might have had living in a cubicle, just to go in the opposite direction of what everybody would expect of you, in another case to continue the direction of adventure that was expected of you, in any case that was not what was important what was important is that we intersected, had fun, and chased whatever we were chasing.
The bottom line is that life is amazing and gratifying, perhaps even miraculous, but hardly impossible as we attest in our modest existences. Why are all four of us are here I am not sure but love of the sea is my guess, sailing was just a way of expressing it and that is not unusual to be sure many of the conditions of life involves water, from the ?warm little pond� where Darwin supposed life to the bubbling sea vents that are now the most popular theory. It is as they say ?just in our blood� and I for one could not imagine life without being on the water.
When we reach Tortola we should have Internet and I will share the group photos. With that I must go above and save Alan from an ensuing political discussion about gay marriages.
Our Best to All
John and the Crew of the Four Seas.