26.11. - Bonding with a flying fish

Crossing the Atlantic is a lonely man’s mission. It is not only that you don't see any other boats, but no one actually sees hardly any other living creatures. After 4 days and 4 nights, a flying fish makes one almost say, ”how do you do?”.

Dalai Lama says that engaging with communities will make a person happier.
Happiness will not be complete without connection to your community. It's collective happiness that makes societies work better.

Now after spending a few days on board, the flying fish ??? just like us, far away over the sea.

Crossing the Atlantic puts the dimensions of the globe into a new perspective. 3000 miles, nothing but water. All what you see during the 15-20 day period is blue, different spectres of blue.

In addition to the flying fish, we have occasionally seen a bird or two, amazing how they can live out on the see more than 100 miles from the nearest shore. We were also lucky and saw a whale, some 100-200 meter away from us, surfaced once and continued it's journey. One more flock of tuna just 20-50 meters from our boat. They were probably hunting and the smaller tuna got scared by the bigger brothers and sisters. The smaller ones escaped, they jumped from the sea.

It is Thursday. We have now made some 25% of the journey, today’s leg being 189 miles. Weather continues to be perfect, sun shines and winds had 8-15 m/s from north-east.

This is being a beautiful and incredibly wonderful experience with not much of sleep. One of the finesse of the thing is that you cannot do very much on the board, and you cannot leave the sea. Most likely the coming 2000 miles will be the same. Luckily the thing is break, which is happy for me.

Pasi