His name is Remi.
He launches out on the Atlantic without ever... having set foot on a boat. Discovery of activities on board. That are far from navigation, adjustments or other marine problems. No, in a deckchair you read a lot and above all, you try to eat well. The kitchen has a primordial place on a sailboat on a big cruise as this 4th episode of the adventures of Captain Remi shows it well.
" Day 9 - Transatlantic logbook
It's 11:30 and I've been up for six hours already. I have the impression that a whole day has just passed, but it is not even noon. The sun has already been banging hard for two hours and its intensity is only increasing. Staying on deck in full sunlight becomes a real torture. The sun being at its zenith, shade is rare. It will be necessary to wait 16h so that the temperature drops a little bit and that it is again pleasant to read in the sun.
So it is more than 4 hours to occupy, inside, in the cabin, kind of oven where the heat is stored and we cook slowly. These 4 hours are long, very long and it's time to find another occupation than the one I've found so far: to fall asleep in my sweat, down in the heat. We don't have air conditioning and the few windows are too narrow to let enough air through. There is a larger one at the bow, but the risk of a wave breaking against the hull and flooding the cabin is too great. In fact, it has already been opened once and the result has not been long in coming.
You'll understand, it's hot.
The time is long or rather, we have a lot of time ahead of us. We wait patiently for the wind to willingly push us in the right direction. So far, we're going at an average of 4 to 5 knots, which I admit, doesn't talk to me at all. The important thing is to move forward and it is hard to realize this without looking at our position on a map, because the scenery never changes. Water and more water. Occasionally, once every 3 days, we cross, well I should say, we can see at several hundred meters, a cargo going in the opposite direction.
I have the impression that my fellow travellers appreciate this monotony and that they feel good. In any case, it is certain, they are not impatient as I am to arrive in France. I haven't seen my family and friends in four months. I can't wait to surprise them. Oh, yeah, I didn't tell anybody
I remember asking Daniel how long the crossing would last when he was preparing for the trip. He had estimated the duration at about twenty days. We'll take 35 days. At the same time, we depend only on the good will of the wind, and it is hard to predict what the weather will be like tomorrow, what wind, what sea... Weather is not an exact science either!
