Solar Blue - Log 11/11/13 .. Day 2 ... Crew introduction .. Nadya & Sasha

No one normal boat does all the preparations for the Atlantic crossing in the last day. But we did! Unfortunately our SV Solar Blue was late with her arriving to Las Palmas, so we had only one day to buy all the food and complete all the needed equipment. And in these hard circumstances we all were feeling we're a good Crew, a friendly unit for the whole Atlantic. All people from different countries: Australia, Russia, Thailand, Italy, Switzerland - now we're all together in this big, big ocean!

That's how our way from Canaries to St Lucia begins. With all the preparations in one day and with the first hard night in the ocean, when some of us were seasick and learned to feel the boat from its inside: now I know how it sounds; I know the sound of propeller and the sound of waves, the autopilot's one and the sound of rigging while changing the tack. And I just wonder how much new things I can learn in the next few days from here to Saint Lucia!..

The ocean is always different, and I'm really happy to know that everyday it changes itself and it changes me.

Nadya & Sasha, Moscow, Russia