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Nona's Farewell

20 July 2010
Isabelle
The Brandy's finished. The dry has run dry. There are no crosswords, sudoku or code breakers lying around. Yes, yesterday Nona went back to Australia. After having her with us for three weeks, we said a sad goodbye at the water taxi dock here in Bora Bora.



I have to say this of her; what a TROOPER! She experienced the best and the worst here with us and kept her smile through most of it. Jumping on and off of the dinghy, getting soaked by waves in some of our longer dinghy rides, Swimming with stingrays and sharks, she even let me give her a tattoo!
Thanks for your company over the past three weeks Nona.

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Vessel Name: Dagmar
Vessel Make/Model: CAL 39
Hailing Port: Melbourne, Australia
Crew: James Thomson and Isabelle Chigros-Fraser
About:
Hello and welcome to our new sailing blog! Our dream is to sail across the Pacific Ocean this year starting in Costa Rica and finishing in Australia. [...]
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As we have been told by fellow sailors, when you live at the mercy of the elements plans are like "Jello and Sand"- wobbly and unsteady like Jello (jelly for us aussies) and when you write something in the sand often it will be washed away with the tide. It is for this reason that we didn't finish [...]
'Twenty years from now you will be more dissapointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.' -Mark Twain
' I felt my pulse beating with suppressed excitement as I threw the mooring bouy overboard. It seemed as if that simple action had severed my connection with the life on the shore; that I had thereby cut adrift the ties of convention. The unrealities and illusions of cities and crowds, that I was free now, free to go where I chose, to do and to live and to conquer as I liked, to play the game wherin a man's qualities count for more than his appearance. 'Maurice Griffiths, The Magic of the Swatchways.